441672 - Unable to Restore Bookmarks

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Linda Ewen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

I see the backup file bookmarks-2008-06-24.json but FireFox says it is unable to restore.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. organize bookmarks
2. restore from backup
3. select backup
Actual Results:  
Message: Unable to restore from backup.

Expected Results:  
It should have restored the bookmarks.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

bug 458683 and bug 448584 are possible causes of this
we can't check which of them is the culprit without looking at current json or
places.sqlite, so resolving incomplete.
feel free to reopen if you can provide one of them, hwv this should be fixed
for 3.1

Comment 2

[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