201606 - no backup for bookmarks!

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 193567

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Dave Dyer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

I just lost 8 months of bookmark evolution because my system crashed 
while trying to write a new bookmark file.  There is no backup at all
for a bookmark file.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. no way to reproduce, but the conceptual experiment is simple
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Actual Results:  
When I rebooted, my bookmarks were gone.  Checkdisk found a damaged
partially written copy, but there was no other backup.

Suggest writing to a temp file, renaming old to a backup, etc.  Give me
a chance to recover!

PS: I had an elaborate stratgegy to back up my bookmarks with other
precious data, but that strategy broke when I switched to mozilla.
Sigh.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 193567 ***