Re: Missing Bookmarks

Ed Mullen wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thanks!  I'm now backing the files up nightly.

Bill