246537 - when installing ver. 0.9 over ver. 0.8, bookmarks added from 0.8 use are lost and replaced w/ imported IE bmarks.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 246018

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[toby]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 Firefox/0.8

I installed the Latest version of firefox only to find that it replaced all of
my bookmarks w/ my old IE bookmarks.  I have not been able to locate where the
bookmarks that I added to firefox 0.8 have gone, most likely they've been
deleted by an overwrite in the installation. :(

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Import bookmarks from IE into firefox 0.8
2.Add more bookmarks to the list
3.Install version 0.9 over 0.8 and then watch all of your hard work at finding
those wonderful links disapear, and be replaced by your old IE bookmarks.

Actual Results:  
I cried.

Expected Results:  
Should have an option to import from IE or not, or to be able to use the
previous version of firefox's bookmarks along with imported bookmarks from
another browers such as IE.

Comment 1

[Yan Morin]

Duplicate of http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246018

Comment 2

[PikeUK]

If you go back to 0.8 your bookmarks should reappear, they are still there they
just didn't get copied over to 0.9rc, when the real 0.9 comes out this should be
fixed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 246018 ***

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change