Firefox 67.0.2 64 bit. Recently updated and no bookmarks.
I think I lost them on a very recent update. The only book mark now is "Getting Started". I went through the help menu and the only bookmarks folder it led me to was "june 21, 2019" so nothing before today. Any ideas? I have a back up service "BackBlaze" that I've never used. It may be there but I'd need to know what folder I'm looking for. Thanks in advance,
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If you lost personal data then it is possible that a new default-release profile folder has been created.
See "Determine if Firefox has created a new profile":
You can open the about:profiles page via the location bar to check whether multiple profiles are present and what profile Firefox currently is using.
- Do NOT click any Remove button on this page.
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles
Firefox 67 and later can use a dedicated profile for each of the Firefox update channels and will lock the profile, so it can only be used by Firefox in a specific installation folder. For Release versions this profile would be a xxxxxxxx.default-release profile, profiles used in older Firefox versions usually used a xxxxxxxx.default profile (a refresh adds a time stamp).
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/05/firefox-67-dark-mode-css-webrender/
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Okay, I found a way. Here's what I did. I've got a win7 machine. I went to C:\Users\putyournamehere\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles There were 3 profiles. The newest one from 6/21 (today), 1 from 6/5/19 and an older one. I opened up the newest profile for me, Opened "bookmarksbackup" and cut the bookmarks file and pasted it on my desktop so I wouldn't lose it. Then I went into the 6/5 profile/bookmarksbackup folder and copied the latest bookmark file from there. I then went back into the bookmarksbackup folder for the 6/21 profile and pasted the 6/5 bookmarks in there.
I did all this with Firefox closed and when I opened it I got my bookmarks back!
I hope this helps someone. I'm not really a computer whiz so if someone else has a better suggestion or just a better way to word this solution that would be great. Thanks!
Chosen Solution
If you lost personal data then it is possible that a new default-release profile folder has been created.
See "Determine if Firefox has created a new profile":
You can open the about:profiles page via the location bar to check whether multiple profiles are present and what profile Firefox currently is using.
- Do NOT click any Remove button on this page.
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles
Firefox 67 and later can use a dedicated profile for each of the Firefox update channels and will lock the profile, so it can only be used by Firefox in a specific installation folder. For Release versions this profile would be a xxxxxxxx.default-release profile, profiles used in older Firefox versions usually used a xxxxxxxx.default profile (a refresh adds a time stamp).
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/05/firefox-67-dark-mode-css-webrender/