Re: Missing Bookmarks

Bill wrote:

> Neil wrote:
> 
>> Bill wrote:
>>
>>> I fired up Mozilla 1.7 after 3 days of not using it (or my PC for 
>>> that matter) and my bookmarks have disappered!  The side-bar, where I 
>>> usually display them, is blank.
>>
>>
>>
>> Have your bookmarks disappeared from the bookmark manager sidebar or 
>> is it just the sidebar that is not displaying, and the bookmarks still 
>> exist in the standalone manager (Ctrl+B)?
>>
> 
> [Sorry for the looooong delay in responding]
> 
> They had disappeared from the sidebar as well as the bookmark manager.
> 
> And it's happened again (sort of).  This time, *some* of my bookmarks 
> have disappeared (some hierarchies).  I can't figure out what triggered 
> it.  I got up this morning and I couldn't find some precious links :-(
> 
> I can't find where bookmarks.html is kept, so I can at least back it up. 
>  (Windows "Search can not find bookmarks.html, which is the name of the 
> bookmarks file, according to Mozilla Help.
> 
> I tried to navigate Mozilla's bug reporting system, but I got confused 
> (ok - impatient is more like it).
> 
> Needless to say, I'm spooked (and losing faith in Mozilla).  Nothing 
> like this ever happened to me with IE.  Now, I've lost data twice within 
>   4 months!
> 
> "About Mozilla" reports that I'm on Mozilla 1.7 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; 
> U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616)
> 
> Any suggestions are welcome!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bill

For profile location see:

http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.5/faq/profile.html
http://www.holgermetzger.de/pdl.html

You said you lost data twice in 4 months.  Do you have a backup of your 
profile?  If not, your bookmarks.html file may indeed be gone.

File loss/corruption can happen for a variety of reasons.  It is 
imperative that you backup your profile on a regular basis.  Mine is on 
an automatic nightly schedule.

-- 
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net
http://edmullen.net/moz.html