WorfsPonytail Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 second time this has happened to me (happened once several months ago). randomly (ie. no reason what so ever) all of my book marks that are not in folders, and all folders after the letter P are deleted. i am so ****ed. i just lost probably a thousand book marks :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: i will not go back to ie, but i think its time to ditch firefox. i cant have this happen again. (i did back them up a little while ago, but i know i lost tons of new, very IMPORTANT, bookmarks) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckozlowski Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 I hear Opera is pretty good these days... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JK1150 Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 you should back them up whenever you add important ones if this is a problem. I don't know anyone who had this happen, you sure you didn't create a new profile? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerby Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 I randomly lost all my bookmarks and settings and extensions one day. I didn't do anything, I left the computer for a class, I came back, and it was all gone. It's like firefox uninstalled itself, then reinstalled itself fresh. I was pretty angry... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimy Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 i suggest you report it to mozilla, if you're still ****ed off, try another browser, there are a ton these days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildcard Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 Maybe it is using a new profile somehow ? Check the profile folder, do you have two ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BentleySauce Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 :blink: um, just curious, why do you need over a thousand bookmarks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icecaveman Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 I've lost my favorites and profiles MANY times with Firefox, still I can't seem to quit it just out of old habbit I guess, trying to convert to Opera Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorfsPonytail Posted June 18, 2005 Author Share Posted June 18, 2005 i checked, and the only profile there is the default. firefox didnt make a new profile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerby Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 I don't have two profiles, I don't know what happend to mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Objexxx Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 The same thing happened to me about a month ago! I opened FireFox one day and it says "please select/create new profile" or something like that. Lost all of my favorites and settings. No idea why it happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jus1haz2 Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 :blink: um, just curious, why do you need over a thousand bookmarks? 586081581[/snapback] I was thinking the same thing. Maybe they limit you to a certain number of bookmarks or maybe it crashes because of a glitch becuase there are so many bookmarks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PureEdit Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 I know people who had this problem with IE, so I gave them firefox to use instead. For them it was caused by spyware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorfsPonytail Posted June 18, 2005 Author Share Posted June 18, 2005 i am sad :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EL Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 **** firefox? **** YOU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
em_te Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 I haven't tried out this extension but you seem like a prime candidate to try it out. GoodOldFavorites. It allows you to use your IE favorites from within Firefox. And IE Favorites seem less likely to get lost since each bookmark is stored as an individual file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pax13 Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 you're getting me scared! I'm gonna go backup right now!!! I ramdomly switch between ffox & opera! i love opera's instant page back feature, ff is fast but opera is instantaneous tough! Also still the only one with svg support ( not counting ff nightlies ). the bad about using opera is once u get accostumed to gestures u keep doing it in everyother browser! especially back, new & close gestures quite funny tough! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shihchiun Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 Can't you just backup your bookmarks.html file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnimeUSA Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 i am sad :( 586081602[/snapback] Was this with Firefox 1.0? Or a nightly build? I've been running nightly builds with no problem but I make sure and export my bookmarks to an html file every few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[bear] Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 If you uninstall firefox but your EXE is still being used by a dock program or another program etc. it will try to remove the file on a restart regardless whether or not you installed a newer build after the uninstall. I have experienced this many times. However, if you had 1000 bookmarks you probably should have kept a bookmark. Your fault, your loss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorfsPonytail Posted June 18, 2005 Author Share Posted June 18, 2005 fire fox 1.4 i just took a look and my last book mark backup was 3 months ago its really sad that mozilla would release a browser with a problem this serious that seems to affect alot of people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowbladex Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 The reason it happens is because firefox doesn't always close correctly and the process (and thus your default profile) is still loaded even though you can't see it Then you inadvertantly create a new profile when you start firefox again The fix is pretty straightfoward with these directions First close firefox and then check the task manager to make sure it isn't running, click the processes tab and close the firefox.exe process if it's running right click the firefox shortcut and change the target from "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" to "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -profilemanager .... quotes and all just like i have it, hit ok then click the icon and pick the default profile, hit ok this fixes the problem 95% of the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[bear] Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 fire fox 1.4i just took a look and my last book mark backup was 3 months ago its really sad that mozilla would release a browser with a problem this serious that seems to affect alot of people 586081620[/snapback] it doesn't really affect a mass number of people. Everytime that firefox has uninstalled on me (three or four times now) my bookmarks have remained intact because the profile wasn't touched. As explained above you can just start up into the profile manager. Nothing lost, nothing gained. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorfsPonytail Posted June 18, 2005 Author Share Posted June 18, 2005 i went into my user data... there is only one profile, and that is the default. i looked at the bookmarks.html and they are missing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
episode Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 fire fox 1.4i just took a look and my last book mark backup was 3 months ago its really sad that mozilla would release a browser with a problem this serious that seems to affect alot of people 586081620[/snapback] I've got an idea: How bout you make something better? Instead of blaming mozilla, how about not being lazy and only doing a backup once in three months. If it is "important" information, I would think you would have more than a single copy. But I guess your backdoor links to porn sites arent really that important to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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