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Lolu chungechunge lwabekwa kunqolobane. Uyacelwa ubuze umbuzo omusha uma udinga usizo.

While making some minor name changes, etc. in bookmarks, I suddenly have double entries for all; can it be undone?

ghubby3
ghubby3
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Recent install of Ver. 5; was able to import bookmarks from AOL; and was changing names, deleting unused ones, etc. When I sorted by name, all were doubled. Or did I err with a double import? Either way - any easy fix?

Recent install of Ver. 5; was able to import bookmarks from AOL; and was changing names, deleting unused ones, etc. When I sorted by name, all were doubled. Or did I err with a double import? Either way - any easy fix?

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David McRitchie
David McRitchie
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I suddenly have double entries for all; can it be undone (at least a week ago)

Kind of hard to tell what to do now. This is what should have been done immediately:

Restore from your bookmarks backup that you had before you had the problem. It was a week ago, so that's back a bit, Firefox now retains 10 or 11 backups by default in Version 4& 5, but you might still be on the default of 5 from an earlier version.

Bookmarks > Show ALL Bookmarks Ctrl+Shift+B > Import & backup > Restore check out the dates and sizes.

You might take your own backup first and store offline in case you decide that what you have now is better than a week or two old (why do we see stupid things like 1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 1 month for when things were posted, it is neither precise nor accurate for computer records)