During a recent reovery process my bookmarks were lost. Now they're encrypted and I'm not able toaccess them, How do I get them back??
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Hi myohoman1,
I'm sorry to hear your bookmarks disappearing on your Firefox web browser.
Have you tried checking to see if a new Profile was created? It might be worth looking into.
You could switch back by typing about:profiles in the address bar - > under your default profile click Set as default profile
If your recovery process involved refreshing Firefox there may be a Old Firefox Data saved on your desktop.
Hi myohoman1, what do you mean by:
Now they're encrypted and I'm not able toaccess them
If you have a bookmark backup file with a name like
bookmarks-2019-09-30_1250_gibberish==.jsonlz4
they are definitely compressed but probably not encrypted. These .jsonlz4 files are meant to be restored to Firefox using the steps in the following article:
Restore bookmarks from backup or move them to another computer
However, a Restore completely replaces your current set of bookmarks. If you want to preserve what you have or see the contents first, I have a converter page which generates the HTML export format from the file:
https://www.jeffersonscher.com/ffu/bookbackreader.html
An HTML export file is brought into Firefox using the Import feature:
Import Bookmarks from an HTML file
An Import adds to your current bookmarks, it doesn't completely replace them.