260243 - bookmarks deleted after a bad shutdown

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 193749

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Alex]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

after a power failure my bookmarks were deleted, and my toolbar customization
was set back

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce
Steps to Reproduce:
i do not know, if it happens every time, but
2. start firefox 1 pr
3. and then shutdown the power

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Look for

C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application
Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\..\bookmarks.html 

and delete it.
than rename the file bookmarks.bak -> bookmarks.html

Comment 2

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

You shouldn't have to copy that stuff over manually; if you can reproduce this,
can you check the size of the bookmarks.html in your profile?  Is it 0, or
greater than 0?  Also check the size of bookmarks.bak.

Firefox should use bookmarks.bak if boomarks.html doesn't exist or its size is 0.

Comment 3

[dm]

It happened several times to me too, basically each time Firefox crashes
seriously (which occurs rather seldom).
I remember to have checked that boomarks.html was existing and of nonzero size
(size was indicated as 1Kb), but it was empty.

Comment 4

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

*** Bug 265700 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[OstGote!]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 193749 ***

Comment 6

[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