I have a MBP with Parallels. I deleted Firefox from OSX and lost all bookmarks. Is there a way to retrive them?
I have a MBP with Lion as well as Parallels and Windows 7. In Lion, I completely uninstalled Firefox using "Clean My Mac." Don't ask me why:( Understandably, my bookmarks are gone.
Are they hidden anywhere they can be retrieved? I have been trying to fix this for three days using all your suggestions but just do not have the savvy to do it alone.
Help!! Dave Cain
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Try re-installing Firefox and see if your bookmarks appear in Firefox. If not, you probably deleted your personal data when you un-installed Firefox.
Good suggestion and I have already done that but to no avail. But it seems like there are two other options that i just can't crack. The first is that i have a full backup using Time Machine and i also have Firefox running on Windows 7 on Parallels on the same laptop. Isn't there a file in one of those two places that i can tap from? A profile or html file that might have the bookmarks?
Thanks, Dave
Edmeister, any further thoughts on my little problem?
Thanks, Dave Cain
Firefox running on Windows via Parallels and Firefox for Mac OS X have their own bookmarks file. Although, if you take a look at your bookmarks list in the Windows version and you had imported your bookmarks from the Mac version (and everything looks intact), you could just do an export/import.
If not, you've mentioned that you have Time Machine turned on -- have you tried reverting to a previous backup and taking it from there? I might be mistaken, but you should be able to pull specific files.
Mishell,
Thanks for that input. A specific question: I have tried to import from the Windows side but do not know exactly what file to look for. Can you be brutally specific about how that process works? This is not an intuitive process for me and my efforts have not worked.
Thanks!
Think of that as having two separate computers, where you want to copy bookmarks from one to the other.
See this support article paragraph.
Thanks Edmeister. I was able to reach from OSX to Windows 7 to locate and 'Restore' to a bookmark backup file from the Firefox resident to Windows. In fact, I see a list of old dates that are prior to my deleting Firefox from OSX. But none of them changed any of the current bookmarks in OSX Firefox. I then Restored Firefox on the Windows side but it didn't give me any new bookmarks. I was under the impression (incorrectly) that both sides might have the same bookmarks. Wrong answer.
When going into Time Machine, there is also no luck because the Firefox file does not exist in Application Support, so there is nothing to pull from there.
Sounds like it's game over.
Unless you specifically configured either the Windows version of Firefox or the Mac version to use the same Profile as the other, you should have had two separate Profiles and data storage areas. And that's not all that simple to do, no "switch" to do that, you would remember doing the "coding" to make one version use the others Profile.
If you use the Time Machine then you can try to find the Firefox profile folder in that backup and retrieve them.
I believe that you don't see the Firefox folder in Application Support because it is hidden in Lion (or you may have been in the wrong Library folder). Make sure that Finder is your active application and click on the "Go" menu item. Hold down the option key and you'll see "Library" appear. Click on it. Now go to Application Support. The Firefox folder should be there. With this window active, open Time Machine.
Hopefully, this works for you.