Recent answers to Places.sqlite and bookmarks.html suddenly doubled in sizehttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/13325192021-04-13T01:48:50-07:00FredMcD,
Unfortunately the bookmarks data base has 53608 folders/subfolders so it would be almost im2021-04-13T01:48:50-07:00jtb905-ffsynchttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1332519#answer-1405668<p>FredMcD,
</p><p>Unfortunately the bookmarks data base has 53608 folders/subfolders so it would be almost impossible to manually go through each folder and nested subfolders to find the rogue folder that caused the bookmarks.html folder to almost double in size. That is why I was hoping there was some software that could interrogate the places.sqlite folder in terms of selecting all the folders and then sorting them by size which would flag the super sized folders as likely targets where the rogue folder got copied into.
</p><p>I have not used Windows Favorites but I could import the bookmarks.html into internet explorer in order to run deduplicator software but I don't think this would help as many bookmarks are saved into different folders as it may relate to various biochemical aspects unless the software can search for duplicate folders with identical content rather than just by name, for example I probably have more than 75 folders named Cancer but each one will have a unique content of subfolders and bookmarks. The real problem is to try and find the one very large folder that somehow got copied inadvertently into some other folder/subfolder.
</p><p>Does anyone know of a deduplicator type software that would permit the search of duplicate folders based on their content?
</p><p>Many thanks to both for your suggestions
</p>Hi Naheed,
Thanks for the suggestion. I do not use sync and have previously done the remaining steps2021-04-13T01:24:20-07:00jtb905-ffsynchttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1332519#answer-1405654<p>Hi Naheed,
</p><p>Thanks for the suggestion. I do not use sync and have previously done the remaining steps but still get the bloated size of the bookmarks.html file. Still hoping that there is some software that will allow segmenting folders and sorting them by size to find the rogue file that has been duplicated somewhere.
</p><p>Once again thanks for the input.
</p>Hello,
First Disable sync
Backup your bookmarks
Now delete all your bookmarks
Go into the profi2021-04-12T16:01:55-07:00naheedmirehttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1332519#answer-1405568<p>Hello,
</p>
<ul><li> First Disable sync
</li><li> Backup your bookmarks
</li><li> Now delete all your bookmarks
</li><li> Go into the profile directory and delete "places.sqlite."
</li><li> Restart and import bookmarks
</li></ul>Do you use Windows Favorites? If not, you could import your bookmarks.html file into Internet Explor2021-04-12T15:21:52-07:00jscher2000https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1332519#answer-1405552<p>Do you use Windows Favorites? If not, you could import your bookmarks.html file into Internet Explorer which will convert your bookmarks to Windows Favorites. My thought is then you could use disk organizing tools to de-duplicate them. Then finally you could get those back into Firefox after cleanup (you can export from IE, or delete your bookmarks in Firefox and tell it to import from IE).
</p>Looks like you may have to do this manually.
Open the Bookmarks Manager; Press the Alt or F10 key
2021-04-12T14:13:21-07:00fredmcd-hotmailhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1332519#answer-1405544<p>Looks like you may have to do this manually.
</p><p><br>
Open the <strong>Bookmarks Manager; </strong> Press the <strong>Alt</strong> or <strong>F10</strong> key
to bring up the toolbar, and select <strong>Bookmarks. </strong>
Hot key is <strong>&lt;Control&gt; <em>(Mac=&lt;Command&gt;)</em> &lt;Shift&gt; B. </strong>
Firefox 84+ <strong>&lt;Control&gt; <em>(Mac=&lt;Command&gt;)</em> &lt;Shift&gt; O. </strong>
</p><p><br>
Look at the directory tree on the left side.
You should be able to see any duplicate folders.
</p>Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately I have already tried a few but they only seem to find duplicate2021-04-12T10:32:15-07:00jtb905-ffsynchttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1332519#answer-1405528<p>Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately I have already tried a few but they only seem to find duplicate bookmarks rather than duplicate folders which would be helpful. One bookmark will frequently be placed in many different folders as it may relate to several different features of say cancer or diabetes. The current "bloated" bookmark database currently has 177292 bookmarks distributed in 53608 folders which gives a good sense of the challenge in finding one (very large) folder that has been inadvertently copied into some other folder/subfolder. That is why I keep hoping to find someway to search for folders and be able to sort them by size.
</p><p>Many thanks for the input
</p>Go to the Mozilla Add-ons Web Page {web Link}
(There’s a lot of good stuff here) and search for a bo2021-04-12T07:35:49-07:00fredmcd-hotmailhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1332519#answer-1405490<p>Go to the <a href="https://addons&#46;mozilla&#46;org/en-US/firefox/" rel="nofollow">Mozilla Add-ons Web Page</a> {web Link}
(There’s a lot of good stuff here) and search for a bookmark duplicate checker.
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