unimatrixzer0 Posted August 9, 2005 Share Posted August 9, 2005 Basically windows was about to have a melt down and I reboot. When I come back and open Firefox ALL of my bookmarks are gone, even the little short cut tabs/buttons. What just happened? How can this be undone? Does Firefox save the bookmarks somewhere that I can just reload them? I will never NEVER again use Firefox if it just self destructed on me. This is the seond time this has happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcovey Posted August 9, 2005 Share Posted August 9, 2005 Basically windows was about to have a melt down and I reboot. When I come back and open Firefox ALL of my bookmarks are gone, even the little short cut tabs/buttons.What just happened? How can this be undone? Does Firefox save the bookmarks somewhere that I can just reload them? I will never again use Firefox if it just self destructed on me. This is the seond time this has happened. 586352179[/snapback] I think you are in a different user profile. The profile contains your bookmarks and settings, so that might be it. Check this: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_...Q_21286249.html May I take this opportunity to recommend the world's best web browser: Opera? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeydoo Posted August 9, 2005 Share Posted August 9, 2005 They might still be there as firefox might have created a new user profile. Look through your "c:/documents and settings/(your user name)/application data/mozilla/firefox/profiles if there are 2 then you might be in luck. edit: if there aren't then in the future make sure you back up this set of folders ie. everything in the mozilla folder. That way if it screws up or if you install firefox to a different computer you can copy the whole lot back in after an intial firefox start up and close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unimatrixzer0 Posted August 9, 2005 Author Share Posted August 9, 2005 *cries* There was only 1 profile. Never again will I use that garbage Firefox. I guess its back to IE. I had 100's of bookmarks. All gone now. It leaves the Cache and Cookies alone but just had to eat away at the bookmarks file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vorenus Posted August 9, 2005 Share Posted August 9, 2005 *cries*There was only 1 profile. Never again will I use that garbage Firefox. I guess its back to IE. I had 100's of bookmarks. All gone now. It leaves the Cache and Cookies alone but just had to eat away at the bookmarks file. 586352246[/snapback] I'm not one to butt into these holy browser wars, but I use the nightly builds of firefox (aka the unstable, crash-alot-bleeding-edge builds) and I've never had any bookmark or profile problems. At least not since the .6 versions of firebird. Maybe something else is screwing with your profile. Spyware or some cleaner program like CrapCleaner. Just a thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhangm Supervisor Posted August 9, 2005 Supervisor Share Posted August 9, 2005 This does seem like a problem, but I'd say Windows is just as much at fault for corrupting the profile folder. http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.ph...age=15&start=30 http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.ph...1043872#1043872 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Win32.User Posted August 9, 2005 Share Posted August 9, 2005 Talk about bad timing... After I read this thread, I hit the back button and it froze, getting the hourglass. After awhile I closed it and reopened FX... then got the default profile window. :pinch: Time to set up my prefrences again I suppose. That's why I back up my bookmarks every few days. Even have all my xpi extensions in a special folder. Backup is your friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeydoo Posted August 9, 2005 Share Posted August 9, 2005 *cries*There was only 1 profile. Never again will I use that garbage Firefox. I guess its back to IE. I had 100's of bookmarks. All gone now. It leaves the Cache and Cookies alone but just had to eat away at the bookmarks file. 586352246[/snapback] Yeah I never had a problem of losing stuff either. Sounds like your windows is a bit twitchy from the "meltdown" comment. It's probably that screwing around with something cause some kind of firefox gubbins to corrupt. See if you have loads of errors in your event viewer? Are any other programs crashing? I have found sod's law dictates computers, if you back-up stuff then nothing happens. If you forget to back-up, it breaks itself. Just because it's a ******. Now I have written that Im scared what's gonna go wrong......... :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whidbey05 Posted August 9, 2005 Share Posted August 9, 2005 go Start==> run Firefox /p and see if that works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctomer Posted August 9, 2005 Share Posted August 9, 2005 Check your profiles directory, sometimes Firefox will backup your bookmarks in a file such as bookmarks-1.html or bookmarks-2.html. Just rename it to bookmarks.html. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msg43 Posted August 9, 2005 Share Posted August 9, 2005 Funny title Anyways is there bookmark.bak file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yochanan Posted August 9, 2005 Share Posted August 9, 2005 go Start==> run Firefox /p and see if that works 586352432[/snapback] Not quite...it's "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -p He shouldn't even need to do that if he used the installer. There's a shortcut to the profile manager on the start menu under "Mozilla Firefox" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotwire Posted August 9, 2005 Share Posted August 9, 2005 lol that sucks but i've never experienced something like this before... guess u are pretty much screwed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.will Posted August 10, 2005 Share Posted August 10, 2005 (edited) Holy ****! The SAME thing just happened to me... again. I LOVE Firefox to death, but I can't put up with this. Hate to see you go FF. I guess I'm off to Opera country? Edit: After screwing around in Opera for about 15 minutes, I didn't like it. It was clunky, slow, and didn't have my favorite keyboard shortcuts :(. Edited August 10, 2005 by .will Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcovey Posted August 10, 2005 Share Posted August 10, 2005 This is why I use del.icio.us :) I found out a neat way to have your delicious bookmarks automatically backed up. On my server, I set a cron job to run at midnight that automatically downloads the RSS dump from my bookmarks (all of them) and then emails it to my gmail account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcovey Posted August 10, 2005 Share Posted August 10, 2005 Holy ****! The SAME thing just happened to me... again. I LOVE Firefox to death, but I can't put up with this. Hate to see you go FF. I guess I'm off to Opera country?Edit: After screwing around in Opera for about 15 minutes, I didn't like it. It was clunky, slow, and didn't have my favorite keyboard shortcuts :(. 586353164[/snapback] guess there are just no good browsers, eh mate? 'Cept Opera. If you're willing to learn and love its idiosyncracies... man is it amazing. I've never experienced Opera being anything resembling "clunky" or "slow"... I think people view it as such because they are predisposed to it being that, and they are confused by its expansive, feature-rich interface. But Opera has the smallest executable size, it's less than 4MB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unimatrixzer0 Posted August 10, 2005 Author Share Posted August 10, 2005 Yeah, I checked the bookmark.bak. Its just a copy of the empty bookmark file. Nothing in it sadly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prometheus Posted August 10, 2005 Share Posted August 10, 2005 I agree Opera is the way to go i have been using it for about 3 months now and I still think its the best out of all browsers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blush Posted August 10, 2005 Share Posted August 10, 2005 (edited) Firefox just crapped out on me a few minutes ago. This is the second time it's happened since I switched to Firefox! :angry: The first time it happened, I just created a new profile and dealt with it. Now I can't access the said profile, but I can go back to the very first profile I had... sheesh. Any way I can go back to my second profile instead of moving all the bookmarks, extensions, etc.? Edit: Never mind, I just ran firefox.exe -profilemanager and switched profiles. I'm such an idiot. :pinch: Edited August 10, 2005 by Synthetic Girl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deathray Posted August 10, 2005 Share Posted August 10, 2005 When Firefox crashes... before you restart firefox or perhaps even windows, make sure the only firefox.exe process is ended, otherwise you'll get the pop up for what profile to use. Ive followed that method and never had a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unimatrixzer0 Posted August 10, 2005 Author Share Posted August 10, 2005 (edited) Guess I'll give FF one last chance. I'll install that extension that backs up bookmarks. *sigh* What I wonder is if it will try and backup the bookmarks if their empty. lol Edited August 10, 2005 by unimatrixzer0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted August 10, 2005 Share Posted August 10, 2005 ALL of my bookmarks are gone, even the little short cut tabs/buttons.What just happened? How can this be undone? Does Firefox save the bookmarks somewhere that I can just reload them? 586352179[/snapback] Did you try System Restore ? Go back to a restore point long enough to retrieve and Save the bookmarks. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unimatrixzer0 Posted August 10, 2005 Author Share Posted August 10, 2005 Nah, I don't trust System Restore at all. Its just a chance for windows to mess up something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcovey Posted August 10, 2005 Share Posted August 10, 2005 I've been using Del.icio.us for my bookmarks for a while now anyway. I'll never go back, I love it. I also set up a cron job to automatically back it up at midnight every night (this would require a dedicated server or shell account, I have a server though)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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