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Where are firefox bookmarks?
I use a couple of different backup programs. One images the whole hard
drive, the other just saves important data files to a different hard drive. (so if I lose some data, I don't have to restore the whole drive) It worked great with mozilla, but I can't find where the firefox bookmarks are stored so I can re-program my backup program. BTW, I tried google, and the only information I could find was for MAC. I'm running windows XP ro. -Dave |
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Dave C. wrote: I use a couple of different backup programs. One images the whole hard drive, the other just saves important data files to a different hard drive. (so if I lose some data, I don't have to restore the whole drive) It worked great with mozilla, but I can't find where the firefox bookmarks are stored so I can re-program my backup program. BTW, I tried google, and the only information I could find was for MAC. I'm running windows XP ro. -Dave They should be in a file named 'bookmarks.htm' folder that has a name something like this: C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\1234abcd.default |
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They should be in a file named 'bookmarks.htm' folder that has a name something like this: C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\1234abcd.default That's IT!!! Now, why did that not show up when I ran a search of the entire hard drive for any file named bookmark? Oh well, thank you!!! -Dave |
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looking for hidden or system files?
"Dave C." wrote in message ... They should be in a file named 'bookmarks.htm' folder that has a name something like this: C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\1234abcd.default That's IT!!! Now, why did that not show up when I ran a search of the entire hard drive for any file named bookmark? Oh well, thank you!!! -Dave |
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In article ,
Doug Warner wrote: Thanks. I'm glade to see it uses a single file, instead of all the littel files with long names used by IE. I ran into a big problem trying to back up my IE bookmarks at work a while back because their long filenames defeated all copy / backup utilities I could find. I eventually had to use a bookmark converter to change them to Netscape format for the move, then back to IE on the new machine. Those long names are totally unnessary. When you do an "Add to Favorites", the default is the title of the page if any. Just cut it down to a word or three before you select a folder and "OK". -- Rich Greenberg Marietta, GA, USA richgr atsign panix.com + 1 770 321 6507 Eastern time. N6LRT I speak for myself & my dogs only. VM'er since CP-67 Canines:Val, Red & Shasta (RIP),Red, husky Owner:Chinook-L Atlanta Siberian Husky Rescue. www.panix.com/~richgr/ Asst Owner:Sibernet-L |
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Note to all: Please do not set the flags for 'no archive' that result
in Google Groups listing this warning of removal message. I'm copying the message into my reply because I normally won't reply to a message that will get deleted, because deleting removes any future benefit my reply may hold to future newsgroup users and searchers. --------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt From: SinghaLvr - Find messages by this author Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 17:08:21 -0500 Local: Sat, Dec 25 2004 2:08 pm Subject: Where are firefox bookmarks? Note: The author of this message requested that it not be archived. This message will be removed from Groups in 6 days (Jan 1, 2:08 pm). --------------------------------------------- Q. Is there any way to get Firefox to use the IE bookmarks instead of it's own? (Not import, but rather just use the IE bookmarks (favorites)?) A. Not that I know of. IE stores the Favorites as separate 'Internet Shortcuts' (*.url files) much like the shortcuts (*.lnk) used to populate the Start Menu while the Mozilla browsers all use a single 'bookmarks.htm' file. The closest option I can think of is to search Google for a 'bookmark manager' that can manage bookmarks/favorites for both browser families. Compass from http://www.softgauge.com/compass/ may work with Firefox, but I haven't tried it and it hasn't been updated in a few years either. |
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