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Every time firefox updates, all my bookmarks get all scrambled up. I spend hours re-arranging them. Please help.

Juliesheltonauthor
Juliesheltonauthor

I have close to a thousand bookmarks. I have them very carefully categorized and alphabetized. Yet, every time Firefox updates, which has been three times in the past 3 weeks, all my bookmarks get scrambled up. It literally takes me hours and hours to re-arrange them to be of any use tome. I've already had to do it once this week, and now, after today's update, I have to do it again. I am a writer and can't afford to spend two days a week re-arranging all my bookmarks! Please help.

I have close to a thousand bookmarks. I have them very carefully categorized and alphabetized. Yet, every time Firefox updates, which has been three times in the past 3 weeks, all my bookmarks get scrambled up. It literally takes me hours and hours to re-arrange them to be of any use tome. I've already had to do it once this week, and now, after today's update, I have to do it again. I am a writer and can't afford to spend two days a week re-arranging all my bookmarks! Please help.

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I'd suggest manually backing up your bookmarks between updates, then restoring them when it updates to maintain your organization. I'm sorry for the inconvenience, and I'm wondering if this is a bug that has been reported.

See this thread: https://support.mozilla.org/bm/questions/773155

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Eve
Eve

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I'd suggest manually backing up your bookmarks between updates, then restoring them when it updates to maintain your organization. I'm sorry for the inconvenience, and I'm wondering if this is a bug that has been reported.

See this thread: https://support.mozilla.org/bm/questions/773155

Juliesheltonauthor
Juliesheltonauthor Question owner

Thank you so much, Eve. I will definitely do this. But first, I need to re-arrange them again so the file I save will be exactly the say I want it. Stay safe and thanks again.

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Juliesheltonauthor said

Thank you so much, Eve. I will definitely do this. But first, I need to re-arrange them again so the file I save will be exactly the say I want it. Stay safe and thanks again.

If you haven't added many bookmarks since the last automatic backup Firefox made, you could try restoring that. Good idea to back up what you have first just in case.

See this article regarding making a fresh backup, and restoring an automatic backup: Restore bookmarks from backup or move them to another computer.

cor-el
cor-el
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Are you possibly using Sync to sync bookmarks to a mobile device ?

Juliesheltonauthor
Juliesheltonauthor Question owner

No, I only have and use bookmarks on my computer.