1082534 - If you store the bookmarks in seamonkey 2.29, everything works fine. If you try to restore them, you get the message "Unable to process the backup file.", and the bookmark file cannot be restored.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1061672

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Johannes Roth]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0
Build ID: 2014082900

Steps to reproduce:

I stored the bookmark file in seamonkey.


Actual results:

The bookmark file was stored.

When I tried to restore the bookmarkfile (or any other) I always get the message:Unable to process the backup file.

This happens on all my computers, with linux and with windows.

If I try to restore the same bookmark file with firefox, everything works fine.
In seamonkey, I can also export and import the bookmarks to a bookmarks.html file, but not as a bookmarks-2014-10-14.json. So everything seems to be correct with the bookmarks.



Expected results:

That the bookmark file is restored and replaces the existing bookmark file.

Comment 1

[Curtis Koenig [:curtisk-use curtis.koenig+bzATgmail.com]]]

while this may constitute data loss I don't think this rises to the level of a security bug, removing flag

Comment 2

[blue20]

It is a bug.  Not a security bug, but it is a problem, nevertheless.  Why create backups that cannot be restored?  You might as well just get rid of the .json and .jsonlz4 backups and go back to only .html if that problem is not going to be remedied.

Comment 3

[therube]

> If I try to restore the same bookmark file with firefox

What version(s) of FF?
Working in FF31 would seem to be expected, but then not working in FF32 or later.

In any case sounds like & so marking as a DUP of Bug 1061672 - Import json-file from Firefox (or even from SeaMonkey) do not work