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How to migrate bookmarks from older Firefox (52) to newest AND KEEP THE BOOKMARK BAR STRUCTURE AND FOLDERS.

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MarkLangner
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I followed the instructions to save bookmarks as an HTML file (old computer, win XP)and then import them into the newest firefox on my new computer (win10). It seemed as if nothing happened. I tried it several times, and then found it was actually putting all the bookmarks in some obscure location - multiple times! - but not saving the organization. Nothing showed up on the bookmarks bar: no folders, no entries,, nada. Eventually I found that the folders existed, somewhere very obscure, but they were all empty. What a crock this is. No better than any other carp software - almost everything I have migrated has been a nightmare. C'mon, Mozilla - You are supposed to be about "people not profit", yes?

I followed the instructions to save bookmarks as an HTML file (old computer, win XP)and then import them into the newest firefox on my new computer (win10). It seemed as if nothing happened. I tried it several times, and then found it was actually putting all the bookmarks in some obscure location - multiple times! - but not saving the organization. Nothing showed up on the bookmarks bar: no folders, no entries,, nada. Eventually I found that the folders existed, somewhere very obscure, but they were all empty. What a crock this is. No better than any other carp software - almost everything I have migrated has been a nightmare. C'mon, Mozilla - You are supposed to be about "people not profit", yes?

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My apologies to this community. My questions was posted late at night, and I had already spent more than 14 frustrating hours trying to migrate other things from old computer to new, in an industry that seems rigged to force you to buy new HW / SW ("Sorry, Quickbooks 2013 is not supported under Windows 10. I can help you purchase a newer version, though".) I finally found this morning about the "places.sqlite" file, and moved it. Bingo. I would delete this thread if I could.

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Shadow110
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What a crock this is. No better than any other carp software - almost everything I have migrated has been a nightmare. C'mon, Mozilla - You are supposed to be about "people not profit", yes?

Hi, if you try asking the question before diving into things and running into problems you will be less frustrated.

So you contact us on the computer with out the issue and send us all the XP info that is not of any help to us to solve your Win 10 system and say the latest browser but that means nothing to us unless you provide a version number to work with.

So please provide a version number.

So with out info you could uninstall and go to version 59 and import your bookmarks then update as that is when a change to place version 60.

I myself do not know the cure for this as have yet seen a answer. But am looking.

You could also consider a Bookmark Manager https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?platform=windows&q=Bookmark+Manager

MarkLangner
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My apologies to this community. My questions was posted late at night, and I had already spent more than 14 frustrating hours trying to migrate other things from old computer to new, in an industry that seems rigged to force you to buy new HW / SW ("Sorry, Quickbooks 2013 is not supported under Windows 10. I can help you purchase a newer version, though".) I finally found this morning about the "places.sqlite" file, and moved it. Bingo. I would delete this thread if I could.