Lost all my bookmarks in Firefox!

[Gulliver]

Launching Firefox as normal.

It has lost all my bookmarks and skins, and ask me to enter a new user profile.

Everything is starting from scratch, months of bookmarks gone.

Errr, what's up doc ? Any idea ?

Internet Explorer still has my old bookmarks from months ago though, but how can this disapear ?

JL

[silverfox]

If it's Windows I believe there's a bookmarks.html file located in the following folder:
C:Documents and Settings<username>Application DataMozillaFirefoxProfilesdefault.id6

Does this folder still exist - Windows hides it from regular folder navigation. If the folder still exists is there a bookmarks.bak that you can rename and use and then restart Firefox?

There's some technical stuff about the profiles and folders within here:

www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/edit#profile

This folder does also hold references to your skins and themes so it sounds ominously like the folder is missing...

Any changes/installations/updates you might have performed recently?

[Gulliver]

Thanks SilverFox,

There are two folders in fact, one called 82uutlsj.default, one called pvf3xs19.DefaultUser, both contain bookmark.bak files.

I can see that the last folder was created today, at the time the problem started.

Should I delete it ?

>> Edited by Gulliver on Thursday 19th May 18:23

[Gulliver]

Deleted that last folder, now I am back with all my bookmarks and all !

Thanks !