411908 - restore bookmarks leaves me with an almost empty library

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 407296

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008011005 Minefield/3.0b3pre ID:2008011005

repro:

select menu [Bookmarks] -> [Show all Bookmarks]
select [Import and Backup] -> [Restore]
select one of the 5 files
wait....
once you bookmarks are restored open [Show all Bookmarks]

result:
except the files on the bookmarks toolbar it's completely empty.
it's impossible to organise the bookmarks in the manager/library

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop] (PTO until July 20)]

Maybe related to bug 408293?

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

I forgot to tell, all bookmarks are in the bookmarks menu, so there is no dataloss, I just can't organize them anymore

Comment 3

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

resetting 

browser.places.leftPaneFolderId

fixed the problem

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Bug 451915 - move Firefox/Places bugs to Firefox/Bookmarks and History. Remove all bugspam from this move by filtering for the string "places-to-b-and-h".

In Thunderbird 3.0b, you do that as follows:
Tools | Message Filters
Make sure the correct account is selected. Click "New"
Conditions: Body   contains   places-to-b-and-h
Change the action to "Delete Message".
Select "Manually Run" from the dropdown at the top.
Click OK.

Select the filter in the list, make sure "Inbox" is selected at the bottom, and click "Run Now". This should delete all the bugspam. You can then delete the filter.

Gerv