Find and Recover Lost Firefox Bookmarks
Before starting, change Folder Options, so your system shows Hidden Files and Folders. For full instructions, check out groovyPost’s article here.
Open Start Menu and click on your account name. You’ll see a folder named Appdata in your profile folder. Double click to open it.
Navigate to Roaming » Mozilla » Firefox » Profiles, and you will see the profile folder. It will be named something funky .default like this example.
Open your folder, and you will find a folder named BookmarkBackups.
Here you’ll find the current months backed up Firefox bookmark files.
If you want a faster way to get to that folder, click Start and type: run into the search box. Hit Enter.
Type: %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ and click Ok.
It will take you directly to the Firefox Profile folder.
Now that you know there are backups of your Mozilla bookmarks and their location import them into Firefox. Click the Firefox button and then Bookmarks.
Or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+B to open the Bookmarks Library. Click Import and Backup » Restore. Then select the most recent bookmarks backup or click Choose File to select an older backup file located in the directory shown above.
A confirmation window comes up. Click OK.
That’s it! Your Firefox bookmarks will be restored to the backup you select. The AppData folder is one nifty folder, because there you will find things that you might just need in case of a complete computer breakdown. So one of the first things I now do is to set a schedule using Karen’s Replicator (Microsoft SyncToy is another good backup tool) to save this folder for all my computers. Comment Name * Email *
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