When I upgraded to 5 most of my bookmarks were lost. I have only the one profile folder. How do I get my bookmarks back?
When I upgraded to Firefox 5, most of my bookmarks were lost, many new and irrelevant ones were added. I have only one profile folder, so changing profiles does not seem to be an option. How can I return to my previous version of Firefox or retrieve my bookmarks?
Alla svar (2)
Changing to a previous version of Firefox will unlikely change anything, unless you are using bookmarks outside of Firefox.
be sure that you are looking at what you think you are looking at. Mozilla moved the bookmarks bar up above the navigation bar.
First thing to do would be to display all of the toolbars, see items #2 and #3 in the following:
You can make Firefox 4.0.1 and Firefox 5.0 look like Firefox 3.6.17, see numbered items 1-10 in the following topic *Fix Firefox 4.0 toolbar user interface, problems (Make Firefox 4.0 look like 3.6)
Check your bookmarks sidebar "Ctrl+B" to see if the bookmarks are actually in the "Bookmarks Toolbar" folder but not showing in the toolbar. If that is the case you have a corrupt localstore.rdf file.
- Corrupt localstore.rdf - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
only downside is recustomizing toolbars View>toolbars>cutomize (take a picture of your toolbars first).
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Corrupt_localstore.rdf
If you have nothing in the "Bookmarks Toolbar" folder then restore your latest .jason file through Firefox.
- "Ctrl+Shift+B" (Show All Bookmarks)
- Import and backup (menu)
- Restore (you should have at least 5 and probably 11 to choose from in FF 5), the restore should go very fast
This was very educational! Thanks a lot.
I still don't have my old bookmarks back, but I now have a better handle on how to manipulate things. I'm going to keep exploring using your suggestions. Tnx, Bill