Please continue your question where you started it please as it has been answered there. <strike>https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/ 1208857</strike>

edit: thread was bumped by and not started by ClintonGallagher

Hi, I'm a moderator of this support forum. Please do not continue your question in the other thread, as that is someone else's thread.

Starting a new thread was the right thing to do. :)

In the Firefox SQLite Manager extension this query used to work:

SELECT b.id AS "Bookmark ID", b.title AS "Title", p.title AS "Folder", ia.content, aa.name AS "AnnoAttribute"
FROM (moz_bookmarks AS b INNER JOIN moz_bookmarks AS p ON p.id = b.parent), moz_items_annos AS ia, moz_anno_attributes AS aa
WHERE (b.id = ia.item_id) AND (ia.anno_attribute_id = aa.id) AND (aa.name LIKE 'bookmarkPropertiesDialog/folderLastUsed')
ORDER BY ia.content DESC

Thanks for the sql query cor-el. It stills runs on sqlite 3.10.1 but it does not solve the problem yet but I did mark as helpful because it is a helpful query and given the time to hack it up further I'll see what I can learn.

That said, the "Bookmark search plus 2" add-on was recommended and does in fact help we users to identify the location of a folder hierarchy that was somehow relocated into another folder.

However, Mozilla still sucks as this has been a Day One problem and the developers should have developed a native means to search for folders by now as one would surmise AFTER 60 HISTORCAL UPDATES as of the date of this rant.

The best way IMO would be searching on a known term that exists in the name of a bookmark such as "inkscape" so search results on that known term returns the folder hierarchy where all such found instances of the search term resides.

But that's just me...

I haven't tested this add-on to see if if include bookmark folders, but it looks like it may help: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bookmark-search-plus-2/

That add-on did work Chris thank you for recommending it.