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most of my bookmarks are deleted

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firefox has deleted most of about 150 bookmarks, and one of the three bookmark folders. I check the troubleshooting site and it said that the bookmarks could be recovered from a backup using the RESTORE function, but this has not worked. Any advice on how I can recover the bookmarks? I used Firefox 87.0 and Windows 7 on a desktop.

Thanks -- Steve

firefox has deleted most of about 150 bookmarks, and one of the three bookmark folders. I check the troubleshooting site and it said that the bookmarks could be recovered from a backup using the RESTORE function, but this has not worked. Any advice on how I can recover the bookmarks? I used Firefox 87.0 and Windows 7 on a desktop. Thanks -- Steve

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Are you having trouble recovering from the backups, or you don't know how?


Restore Bookmark Backups

Firefox automatically makes backups of the bookmarks. These are stored in the bookmarkbackups folder.

Open the Bookmarks Manager; Press the Alt or F10 key to bring up the toolbar, and select Bookmarks. Hot key is <Control> (Mac=<Command>) <Shift> B. Firefox 84+ <Control> (Mac=<Command>) <Shift> O.

Once the window is open, at the top of the page, press the button labeled Import and Backup. Select Restore. From the list, pick the file you want and click it.

The backups are stored in a jsonlz4 file named something like this; bookmarks-2016-06-29_1424_enD1GTH ya0JmicnYWg4V4g==.jsonlz4

In this example; 2016-06-29 = date created, 1424 = number of entries.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/restore-bookmarks-from-backup-or-move-them

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recover-lost-or-missing-bookmarks

https://support.mozilla.org/kb/forum-response-recover-bookmarks-after-update

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Bookmarks:Repair:Restore:corrupt

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_process_the_backup_file_-_Firefox

jscher2000 has a tool on his website to extract out your bookmarks and save them to an HTML-format bookmark export file. If you want to try it, here is the page:

https://www.jeffersonscher.com/res/bookbackreader.html

To open the bookmarkbackups folder in Finder, use the "Open in Finder" button in the first table on the Troubleshooting Information page, and double-click into bookmarkbackups where you should see several dated files. From there you can drag and drop onto the conversion tool.

To import the HTML file, see the steps in this article: Import Bookmarks from an HTML file.