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After update to 49, bookmarks are showing from 9 months ago.

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Joykh
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Hi, I've lost all bookmarks since December. Discovered that is the date of the last Firefox bookmarkbackups file (other than today, which is missing hundreds of bookmarks). How to get them back? There do not appear to be any other profiles.... no idea where to look. Thanks!

Hi, I've lost all bookmarks since December. Discovered that is the date of the last Firefox bookmarkbackups file (other than today, which is missing hundreds of bookmarks). How to get them back? There do not appear to be any other profiles.... no idea where to look. Thanks!

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FredMcD
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Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web Link} by holding down the <Shift>
(Mac=Options) key, and then starting Firefox. A small dialog should appear. Click Start In Safe Mode (not Refresh).

Is the problem still there?

These may help;

Places Maintenance {web link} Allows to run Maintenance tasks on the database that drives Places, the bookmarks and history module behind Firefox.

Open the Add-ons Manager. Locate the add-on and press the Options button. Then follow the directions.

Restore Bookmark Backups

To open the Bookmarks Manager, press the Alt or F10 key bring up the tool bar, and select Bookmarks. Hot key is <Control>(Mac=<Command>) <Shift> B.

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_enD1GTHya0JmicnYWg4V4g==.jsonlz4 In this example; 2016-06-29 = date created, 1424 = number of entries.