Not all my boookmarks are saving to HTML
I'm trying to clean out my computer for possibly getting rid of it, and I want to save my bookmarks. So I tried to export them to HTML, and it seemed to work, until I noticed that it was only a portion of my bookmarks saved. It was still a pretty logn list, but is there any way to save all my bookmarks?
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If you can't use the HTML backup then consider to use a JSON backup.
Do the compressed .jsonlz4 backups have all the bookmarks if you check the count number in the name?
The name of a JSON bookmarks backup file includes a total item count (folders and separators included) and an hash value to prevent saving the same backup more than once.
- bookmarks-YYYY-MM-DD_<item count>_<hash>.jsonlz4.
If not all bookmarks are saved to the HTML backup then there might be a problem with a specific bookmark and you can check the Library around the position where the HTML backup stops.
You can check for problems with the places.sqlite database (bookmarks and history) in the Firefox profile folder.
See also:
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Bookmarks+not+saved#w_fix-the-bookmarks-file
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Chosen Solution
If you can't use the HTML backup then consider to use a JSON backup.
Do the compressed .jsonlz4 backups have all the bookmarks if you check the count number in the name?
The name of a JSON bookmarks backup file includes a total item count (folders and separators included) and an hash value to prevent saving the same backup more than once.
- bookmarks-YYYY-MM-DD_<item count>_<hash>.jsonlz4.
If not all bookmarks are saved to the HTML backup then there might be a problem with a specific bookmark and you can check the Library around the position where the HTML backup stops.
You can check for problems with the places.sqlite database (bookmarks and history) in the Firefox profile folder.
See also:
Well, I tried the JSON thing, but it's so dense with code I can't pick out where the count numbers are. Although it did show some names from bookmarks far down on the list.
The "count" is part of the file name, after the day of the backup.
As in >> bookmarks-2016-06-18_<big>1995</big>_<hash>.jsonlz4
1995 is the "item count"
No, all the file name says is "bookmarks-2016-06-17.json", no hash or anything.
You get the bookmarks-2016-06-17.json file name if you create an JSON backup manually. Automatically created compressed .jsonlz4 backups in the bookmarkbackups folder include some additional data in the file name to make it easier to notice changes. A JSON backup should contain all bookmarks. If you want to be sure then create a new profile and restore the JSON backup in that new profile.
All right, although every time I try to create the backup .jsonlz4 file, just keeps giving me the .json filename, how do I create the automatic backup that gives a lot more info?
The file content is the same, only the file name is different. Only a backup automatically created by Firefox uses the extended format. You can inspect the name of a compressed .jsonlz4 backup to check the number of bookmark items.