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Firefox dumped all links and bookmarks
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| I've researched this and found some good info, but I still need help.
For no *apparent* reason, Firefox (1.5) opened yesterday as a new
installation with none of my settings, quick links, and bookmarks. All
gone, completely. I didn't do anything differently. I just opened it to
hit a website. There are recent backups in the Firefox directory, so could
someone tell me how to point Firefox back at all that info like before?
Also, does anyone know why this happened? The only thing that precipitated
it was a netscape upgrade. I had netscape 8.0 on the computer - rarely use
it - and it did an upgrade to 8.1 a few hours prior to my noticing the
Firefox crash. I have to think there is a correlation. ??
jm
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| JM wrote:
> I've researched this and found some good info, but I still need help.
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> For no *apparent* reason, Firefox (1.5) opened yesterday as a new
> installation with none of my settings, quick links, and bookmarks. All
> gone, completely. I didn't do anything differently. I just opened it to
> hit a website. There are recent backups in the Firefox directory, so could
> someone tell me how to point Firefox back at all that info like before?
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> Also, does anyone know why this happened? The only thing that precipitated
> it was a netscape upgrade. I had netscape 8.0 on the computer - rarely use
> it - and it did an upgrade to 8.1 a few hours prior to my noticing the
> Firefox crash. I have to think there is a correlation. ??
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> jm
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yes, you did do something differently. You created a new profile.
Lets see if I can figure out what you did. You closed Firefox, then
you reopened it and it said that FF was in use and asked if you wanted
to create a new profile. You said yes. Next time, if you get that
message or a similar one, click cancel and bring up the Task Manager
[ctrl+alt+del) and end the program there. Now restart FF.
Now, to get back your old profile. All your settings, prefs,
bookmarks, passwords, etc are stored in an area called your profile.
When you create a new profile, all your old settings don't go with the
new profile. They stay with the old one. So, to find the profile,
make sure that FF is closed, COMPLETELY, and I mean check in the Task
Manager and make sure its still not running.
Now, click on Start, Run and enter exactly:
firefox.exe -p
This will bring up the FF Profile Manager. If you see more than one
profile listed, click on one, and see if its your main profile. If
not, close FF completely. Repeat the above until you find your main
profile. Once you found it, you can delete any new ones you created
by accident.
Installing netscape would not affect FF.
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"gwtc" <TheNewGWTC-64-110-101-116-115-99-97-112-101-46-110-101-116> wrote in
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> JM wrote:
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> yes, you did do something differently. You created a new profile.
> Lets see if I can figure out what you did. You closed Firefox, then
> you reopened it and it said that FF was in use and asked if you wanted
> to create a new profile. You said yes. Next time, if you get that
> message or a similar one, click cancel and bring up the Task Manager
> [ctrl+alt+del) and end the program there. Now restart FF.
>
> Now, to get back your old profile. All your settings, prefs,
> bookmarks, passwords, etc are stored in an area called your profile.
> When you create a new profile, all your old settings don't go with the
> new profile. They stay with the old one. So, to find the profile,
> make sure that FF is closed, COMPLETELY, and I mean check in the Task
> Manager and make sure its still not running.
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> Now, click on Start, Run and enter exactly:
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> firefox.exe -p
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> This will bring up the FF Profile Manager. If you see more than one
> profile listed, click on one, and see if its your main profile. If
> not, close FF completely. Repeat the above until you find your main
> profile. Once you found it, you can delete any new ones you created
> by accident.
>
> Installing netscape would not affect FF.
Thank you for your effort, but that's not it. To start with, the events you
speculate happened didn't happen. I have seen that before, and I have had
to restore an old profile in the past, but this time it was different.
Nothing happened with FF out of the ordinary. I know it sounds strange, and
I don't think I would believe someone else telling me this. I would be
thinking, "Oh, you did *something*, you're just not recalling it" or
whatever. But for the sake of moving forward, please take my word for it.
Secondly, I went through the steps you outlined prior to posting my query.
The only profile present is "default," which opens the bare FF installation
I was talking about. When I search the FF directory, my old bookmarks are
there, but the profile appears to be the "default" one mentioned above.
jm
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> Thank you for your effort, but that's not it. To start with, the events you
> speculate happened didn't happen. I have seen that before, and I have had
> to restore an old profile in the past, but this time it was different.
> Nothing happened with FF out of the ordinary. I know it sounds strange, and
> I don't think I would believe someone else telling me this. I would be
> thinking, "Oh, you did *something*, you're just not recalling it" or
> whatever. But for the sake of moving forward, please take my word for it.
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> Secondly, I went through the steps you outlined prior to posting my query.
> The only profile present is "default," which opens the bare FF installation
> I was talking about. When I search the FF directory, my old bookmarks are
> there, but the profile appears to be the "default" one mentioned above.
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fair enough then. Then here's what you can do. FF automatically
keeps a backup of your bookmarks. Close FF, then go into your
profile, and look for any files that have the word bookmarks*.*, and
move them out of the profile. Now look in the folder bookmarkbackup
and find one that has all your bookmarks in them. Copy it to your
profile and rename it to bookmarks.html. Restart FF and see if this
works.
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| tom hunt 2006-02-22, 2:45 am |
| gwtc wrote:
This qwtc person will never admit that firefox has problems. It is
always the user at fault. Having to create a new profile to fix problems
is unacceptable because you lose all your bookmarks etc. BTW I have used
firefox since it came out and am happy with it and will not return to IE
This however doesn't change the fact that firefox has problems.
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| tom hunt wrote:
> gwtc wrote:
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> This qwtc person will never admit that firefox has problems. It is
> always the user at fault. Having to create a new profile to fix problems
> is unacceptable because you lose all your bookmarks etc. BTW I have used
> firefox since it came out and am happy with it and will not return to IE
> This however doesn't change the fact that firefox has problems.
Then do you have a better solution.
Whether you believe it or not, but I actually agree with you on this.
Creating a new profile IS unacceptable, but until someone comes up
with a better way of fixing problems, this is the only way of doing
it. Besides, most of the Mozilla experts and other helpers eventually
end up telling someone to create a new profile and test it out.
You do not lose any of your bookmarks, etc in creating a new profile.
All those are in the old profile. If things work out in the new
profile, then you can usually copy all those things from the old one
to the new one.
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| Ed Mullen 2006-02-22, 8:46 pm |
| gwtc wrote:
> tom hunt wrote:
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> Then do you have a better solution.
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> Whether you believe it or not, but I actually agree with you on this.
> Creating a new profile IS unacceptable, but until someone comes up with
> a better way of fixing problems, this is the only way of doing it.
> Besides, most of the Mozilla experts and other helpers eventually end up
> telling someone to create a new profile and test it out.
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> You do not lose any of your bookmarks, etc in creating a new profile.
> All those are in the old profile. If things work out in the new
> profile, then you can usually copy all those things from the old one to
> the new one.
Ditto. Complain about a problem. Get a solution. Complain about the
solution. Tell ya what, stick with MS software. Get help from them.
And report back with how you managed that. Geez.
YO! It's free software! It have a lot of advantages over old MS
stuff. Interested? fine. Try it. Don't like it? Great! Bye!
Did I oversimplify that? you guys will let me know. Sheesh. It just
annoys me so much when people carp about free stuff. Hey. If you got
laid for free would you be bitching this much about it? Sheesh.
Fine tune your value system.
And, yes, Irwin, I am definitely self-medicating right now. Still not
healed, very much in discomfort, and enjoying being annoyed! LOL.
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Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net
http://mozilla.edmullen.net
http://abington.edmullen.net
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| Ed Mullen wrote:
> gwtc wrote:
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> Ditto. Complain about a problem. Get a solution. Complain about the
> solution. Tell ya what, stick with MS software. Get help from them.
> And report back with how you managed that. Geez.
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> YO! It's free software! It have a lot of advantages over old MS
> stuff. Interested? fine. Try it. Don't like it? Great! Bye!
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> Did I oversimplify that? you guys will let me know. Sheesh. It just
> annoys me so much when people carp about free stuff. Hey. If you got
> laid for free would you be bitching this much about it? Sheesh.
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> Fine tune your value system.
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> And, yes, Irwin, I am definitely self-medicating right now. Still not
> healed, very much in discomfort, and enjoying being annoyed! LOL.
>
sorry Ed, but I don't think Irwin will ever see this. He doesn't
venture out of his mozilla.org comfort zone to this group.
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"gwtc" <TheNewGWTC-64-110-101-116-115-99-97-112-101-46-110-101-116> wrote in
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> fair enough then. Then here's what you can do. FF automatically
> keeps a backup of your bookmarks. Close FF, then go into your
> profile, and look for any files that have the word bookmarks*.*, and
> move them out of the profile. Now look in the folder bookmarkbackup
> and find one that has all your bookmarks in them. Copy it to your
> profile and rename it to bookmarks.html. Restart FF and see if this
> works.
I will try this. I've been out of the office several days.
While using FF, I've noticed that all my history data is there, as is all
the auto-complete and username/password info. It's as if FF retained
everything except my bookmarks and quicklinks. Everything else remains in
FF's "memory."
This strikes me as very odd.
jm
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