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please help firefox crashed and missing bookmarks

tomcuise3230

I should have asked for help early because its been 2 weeks since the

bookmarks have disappeared. I have most of the bookmarks that i

bookmarked a month ago but not the most recently. I most recently

bookmarks went missing when I didn't close firefox properly when i

clicked the standby icon (i closed it after i clicked standby) I have tried all

the methods stated in http://kb.mozillazine.org/Lost_bookmarks (more

then 1 profile, backup bookmarks) but i still can't find the latest ones. I

bookmarked tons of sites in one day and thats why i dont see them on the

backup bookmarks files. Also, when my firefox bookmarks went missing, it

also did these things: everytime i close and restart firefox the customized

toolbar setting always changes to default (i changed it to show text only

but it changes back to show icons!), the google search engine disappeared,

and typed website address are gone on the pull down address bar. So i

dont know what is going on (Also run norton anti-virus and other spyware

removal software like ad-aware, search & destroy, but no spyware was

found) . Please help me at least get my booksmarks back (it took me a long

time to gather them) and anything will help!

 
Jul 25, 07 3:46 pm
Carl Douglas (agfa8x)
http://forums.mozillazine.org/
Jul 25, 07 3:56 pm  · 
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BabbleBeautiful

normally for firefox there's a bookmarks.bak file in the same location as the original bookmarks.htm file. You can look at the date of the .bak file and see if hasn't been modified since the crash. Then rename that one to bookmarks.htm making sure to copy the original bookmarks.htm file to somewhere else or risk losing what you've recovered so far. I highly doubt this will work, but it's worth a shot. Other than this, if you don't have some sort of backup scheme running that you can restore from I wouldn't waste anymore time.

Jul 27, 07 5:13 pm  · 
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