293589 - Where are my bookmarks

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[phcd2002]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Firefox/1.0.2

It seems that there was an announced online update to the software on May 9,
2005 around 9 pm Perth/Singapore time.
After that the user interface looked different and my previosu bookmarks
disappeared.
Where are they please?

Paul

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Firefox doesn't update itself automatically.

What probably happened is that you're now using a different profile than before
(was the old one corrupt or removed ?). If you still have the old profile
(inside Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application
Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles), it should still contain the old bookmarks.

Comment 2

[Ali Ebrahim]

Sounds like an extension was updated. I don't think any Firefox updates were
pushed out on May 9.

Comment 3

[Patrick]

i've seen all sorts of messed-up-ness in recent nightlies.
See also:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=261371

related issues bug 293370
drag/drop from URL bar to personal toolbar is also broken. 

Related to the "stop sharing DOM" checkins?
Haven't done a complete check for related bug reports or dupes yet.

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

(In reply to comment #3)
> i've seen all sorts of messed-up-ness in recent nightlies.
> See also:
> http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=261371

The report was for Firefox 1.0.2.

Comment 5

[phcd2002]

Thank u all for your replies.

Obviously there is a problem.
See:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=261371.

to Jo Hermans:
not sure about if Firefox can update itself automatically.
I didnt know how to chaneg profiles.
I didnt know that i had more than one profile.
Dunno how to change it anyway.

Tried looking as diff profile as you suggested:
"... different profile than before inside Documents and
Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles), it should still
contain the old bookmarks..."

But my folder strcuture is diofferent to that.

I just need to know how to retrieve my bookmarks.

Thanks

Comment 6

[phcd2002]

Thank u all for your replies.

Obviously there is a problem.
See:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=261371.

to Jo Hermans:
not sure about if Firefox can update itself automatically.
I didnt know how to chaneg profiles.
I didnt know that i had more than one profile.
Dunno how to change it anyway.

Tried looking as diff profile as you suggested:
"... different profile than before inside Documents and
Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles), it should still
contain the old bookmarks..."

But my folder strcuture is diofferent to that.

I just need to know how to retrieve my bookmarks.

Thanks

Comment 7

[Ben Fowler]

(In reply to comment #6)
> I just need to know how to retrieve my bookmarks.

See comment 1 . You will find relevant information in the FAQ and in
mozillazine, including the URL you cited. You will get better and
quicker help in mozillazine than you will here.

Comment 8

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

Resolving WFM as per comment 7, this is a support request please ask for further
assistance on the mozillazine forums.


If you can reproduce the loss of the bookmarks using a current trunk nightly
then please reopen.