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</p>My bookmarks are back. I called the guy at the computer place I go to, and he had me come in so that2021-08-30T08:29:03-07:00jayhutchisonhttps://support.mozilla.org/ga-IE/questions/1348512#answer-1439447<p>My bookmarks are back. I called the guy at the computer place I go to, and he had me come in so that he could copy my pre-crash places.sqlite file off of his computer and paste it over the one on my laptop. Thanks for all of the replies!
</p>While using an old file to restore your bookmarks may not have all of your lost
data, it is still be2021-08-30T05:14:49-07:00fredmcd-hotmailhttps://support.mozilla.org/ga-IE/questions/1348512#answer-1439403<p>While using an old file to restore your bookmarks may not have all of your lost
data, it is still better than trying to recover from scratch.
</p>places.sqlite is by default 5 MB and its size is only increased by another 5 MB when there is not en2021-08-30T04:20:18-07:00cor-elhttps://support.mozilla.org/ga-IE/questions/1348512#answer-1439391<p>places.sqlite is by default 5 MB and its size is only increased by another 5 MB when there is not enough free space in the file.
Like I wrote, you need to search for an older places.sqlite copy in the backup made by the guy who reinstalled Windows.
</p>So in the Profiles folder I double click on the default-release folder, and there's the bookmarksbac2021-08-30T03:43:22-07:00jayhutchisonhttps://support.mozilla.org/ga-IE/questions/1348512#answer-1439386<p>So in the Profiles folder I double click on the default-release folder, and there's the bookmarksbackup folder in there that had the jsonlz4 file that I already tried that was very small, as I mentioned above.
</p><p>The default release folder also has a places.sqlite file that's 5120KB and has a date that keeps updating to today. I have not started saving bookmarks again since I knew they would be written over if I tried to address this. The places.sqlite file has been 5120KB since I first found it several days ago, and I've done a lot of internet research in the past few days, meaning I don't think it's growing because of my history of visited websites. Can this be used to retrieve the missing bookmarks?
</p>You would still need an older backup copy of places.sqlite that would have been in the same location2021-08-30T01:44:44-07:00cor-elhttps://support.mozilla.org/ga-IE/questions/1348512#answer-1439356<p>You would still need an older backup copy of places.sqlite that would have been in the same location as the bookmarkbackups folder mentioned above, so chances are not very good.
</p><p>Note that the Firefox profile folder is in a hidden location, so make sure you can see hidden files and folders.
</p>I've seen other posts where someone says that bookmarks are also stored in places.sqlite, but they d2021-08-30T00:09:43-07:00jayhutchisonhttps://support.mozilla.org/ga-IE/questions/1348512#answer-1439314<p>I've seen other posts where someone says that bookmarks are also stored in places.sqlite, but they don't say if there's a way to extract them in situations like mine so that they can be used. I look forward to hearing if that file can be used to get them back.
</p>I called for more help.
2021-08-26T06:06:21-07:00fredmcd-hotmailhttps://support.mozilla.org/ga-IE/questions/1348512#answer-1438486<p>I called for more help&#46;
</p>I don't have a file by that name. The way he described it was that he was making a clone of all of m2021-08-26T03:56:22-07:00jayhutchisonhttps://support.mozilla.org/ga-IE/questions/1348512#answer-1438461<p>I don't have a file by that name. The way he described it was that he was making a clone of all of my files. All of my documents, pictures, music, all of it has come back as it was before the crash.
</p>jayhutchison said
. . . which is when the guy finished reinstalling Windows 10
During the re-instal2021-08-26T03:44:09-07:00fredmcd-hotmailhttps://support.mozilla.org/ga-IE/questions/1348512#answer-1438454<em><p>jayhutchison <a href="#answer-1438441" rel="nofollow">said</a></p></em>
<blockquote>. . . which is when the guy finished reinstalling Windows 10
</blockquote>
<p>During the re-install, did he select to save your old files?
Look for a folder called <strong>Windows.old</strong> in your user folder.
</p>My laptop crashed on 8/23, and the only recent files like this read 2021-08-25, which is when the gu2021-08-26T03:02:57-07:00jayhutchisonhttps://support.mozilla.org/ga-IE/questions/1348512#answer-1438441<p>My laptop crashed on 8/23, and the only recent files like this read 2021-08-25, which is when the guy finished reinstalling Windows 10. The largest is the one I tried that just had Firefox bookmarks. It's only 1.94 KB. I thought it would be a clone of what was on my laptop before it crashed, but now that I see how small it is, it's clearly not. Is there someplace else they could be?
</p>Look at another file.
The backups are stored in a jsonlz4 file
named something like this;
bookmarks2021-08-25T15:00:20-07:00fredmcd-hotmailhttps://support.mozilla.org/ga-IE/questions/1348512#answer-1438305<p>Look at another file.
</p><p>The backups are stored in a <strong>jsonlz4 file</strong>
named something like this;
bookmarks-2016-06-29_1424_enD1GTH ya0JmicnYWg4V4g==.jsonlz4
</p><p>In this example; 2016-06-29 = date created,
1424 = number of entries.
</p>I exported the html under step 2, but I guess the file I was trying to open only had the five defaul2021-08-25T10:40:48-07:00jayhutchisonhttps://support.mozilla.org/ga-IE/questions/1348512#answer-1438278<p>I exported the html under step 2, but I guess the file I was trying to open only had the five default bookmarks that come with Firefox. Is there another place I should look?
</p>http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_process_the_backup_file_-_Firefox
jscher2000 has a tool on his w2021-08-25T10:12:54-07:00fredmcd-hotmailhttps://support.mozilla.org/ga-IE/questions/1348512#answer-1438270<p><a href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_process_the_backup_file_-_Firefox" rel="nofollow">http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_process_the_backup_file_-_Firefox</a>
</p><p>jscher2000 has a tool on his website to extract out your bookmarks and save
them to an HTML-format bookmark export file. If you want to try it, here is
the page:
</p><p><a href="https://www.jeffersonscher.com/res/bookbackreader.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.jeffersonscher.com/res/bookbackreader.html</a>
</p><p>To open the bookmarkbackups folder in Finder, use the "Open in Finder"
button in the first table on the Troubleshooting Information page, and
double-click into bookmarkbackups where you should see several dated
files. From there you can drag and drop onto the conversion tool.
</p><p>To import the HTML file, see the steps in this article:
<a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-html-file" rel="nofollow">Import Bookmarks from an HTML file.</a>
</p>