285868 - Lost half of bookmarks on upgrade

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 284099

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[ffav]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

I upgraded to Firefix 1.0.1 and lost half of my bookmarks. The first 1/2 of the
alphabetical list (through L) are still there, but lost everything after that.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Bookmarks
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
My bookmarks are there until I scroll down to the "L's". The last entry to show
is the "Legal" folder. That is the end.

Expected Results:  
It should scroll down all the way through the alphabetical list of what used to
be my bookmarks, including everything starting with a letter that comes after
"L" in the alphabet.

I think I've pretty well covered it.

Comment 1

[jazz4kurt]

I have a very similar problem with upgrade 1.0.2
I diligently bookmarked all of the windows I had constructed as tabs, then
closed out of Firefox altogether.
After reboot, everything I had saved to bookmarks in the last day was gone.

Comment 2

[kouhei_shindo]

when i started to download some stuff with bitcomet the comp froze and after 
reboot i hade lost every bookmark before 2004-08-13... and thats alot of use 
full bookmarks T_T....
i even tryed to search with "Magic Recovery Professional" but couldent finde 
them x_x

Comment 3

[andy]

lose bookmarks on second load of 1.02 after upgrading from 1.0

I have even ran a system restore and same result.

Comment 4

[Tristor]

I am unable to reproduce this under WindowsXP Service Pack 1 or Windows 2000
Service Pack 4.  I recently updated them to 1.0.2 using the software update, and
had no issues.

Reporter:

Can you please clarify the steps to reproduce?  Was there anything in specific
you did before, during, or after the update that could cause a different result
than what I am experiencing?

Comment 5

[miryamgordon]

I had an automatic upgrade, I >think< (since it's automatic, I haven't paid much
attention to it), VERY RECENTLY to 1.0.3. Some short time after, having not
opened FF for some hours, I clicked and it asked for a new profile or something,
and I tried not to set up a new one, but was unsuccessful and when it finally
opened the screen my very carefully saved bookmarks were reset to zero!

I have lost a ton of work and time put in to these bookmarks, for a specific
job. I am so ****! I have NEVER lost my favorites. Favorites are easy to find.
Favorites are easy to copy. Favorites are easy to import. I am feeling totally
insecure about FF at this point! Marking your browsing is the biggest issue
about browsing!

It sucks!

Comment 6

[Tristor]

(In reply to comment #5)
> I had an automatic upgrade, I >think< (since it's automatic, I haven't paid much
> attention to it), VERY RECENTLY to 1.0.3. Some short time after, having not
> opened FF for some hours, I clicked and it asked for a new profile or something,
> and I tried not to set up a new one, but was unsuccessful and when it finally
> opened the screen my very carefully saved bookmarks were reset to zero!
> 
> I have lost a ton of work and time put in to these bookmarks, for a specific
> job. I am so pissed! I have NEVER lost my favorites. Favorites are easy to find.
> Favorites are easy to copy. Favorites are easy to import. I am feeling totally
> insecure about FF at this point! Marking your browsing is the biggest issue
> about browsing!
> 
> It sucks!

That seems to be the 'profile corruption' bug, and is unrelated to this one. 
There are instructions in several places online on how to fix it.  It should be
fixed in the next version (1.1) and is a known bug.

Comment 7

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 284099 ***