2 days ago whilst arranging my bookmarks I decided to delete an unused folder in the list and all of my book marks just disappeared
2 Days ago 22/01/2019 whilst tidding up my book marks I came across an empty folder which was not being used , I decided I would delete this folder and to my amazement all of my bookmarks disappeared , I have tried and better tried to find these bookmarks but all I can find is older versions which do not have all the latest information which I use saved within them , can you please assist me in installing my book marks as of the 21/01/2019 please I was just in the process of using some of the information stored there and now I cannot access this ?
Regards
Steven M Lumb
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If you have not closed Firefox, go back to the Bookmark Manager and undelete what you did.
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.
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
BTW, the current version of Firefox retains 14 bookmarks backup files - one for each day that Firefox was used; so you should be able to recover a "good" backup.