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How to import bookmarks in Firefox?
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| Cyberiade.it Anonymous Remailer 2007-06-13, 7:12 pm |
| I had a crash. I had to recover my latest True Image backup.
Unfortunately, that backup was weeks old and didn't have all my newer
bookmarks. When I try importing my newer bookmarks from their backup
directory, Firefox adds them to the already present ones, duplicating
all those that were present in my True Image backup.
How can I get around this and import only the newer backup file?
Is there someway to delete all the bookmarks from my True Image backup
and start afresh by importing the newer bookmarks?
The bookmarks scheme of Firefox is a horrible mess of bad programming.
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| Ed Mullen 2007-06-13, 7:12 pm |
| Cyberiade.it Anonymous Remailer wrote:
> I had a crash. I had to recover my latest True Image backup.
> Unfortunately, that backup was weeks old and didn't have all my newer
> bookmarks. When I try importing my newer bookmarks from their backup
> directory, Firefox adds them to the already present ones, duplicating
> all those that were present in my True Image backup.
>
> How can I get around this and import only the newer backup file?
>
> Is there someway to delete all the bookmarks from my True Image backup
> and start afresh by importing the newer bookmarks?
>
> The bookmarks scheme of Firefox is a horrible mess of bad programming.
>
There is no need to "import" - you simply need to restore the most
recent bookmark backup file. In your Firefox profile folder is a
sub-folder called "bookmarkbackups." Go in there, find the most recent
file, copy it up one level to the main profile folder and let it
overwrite the one that's there. If it is named something other than
"bookmarks.html" you need to rename it to that after copying it.
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Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net
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| Cyberiade.it Anonymous Remailer 2007-06-13, 7:12 pm |
| In article < eL6dnQhcL5AM1e3bnZ2dnUVZ_gydnZ2d@comcast
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Ed Mullen <ed@edmullen.net> wrote:
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> There is no need to "import" - you simply need to restore the most
> recent bookmark backup file. In your Firefox profile folder is a
> sub-folder called "bookmarkbackups." Go in there, find the most recent
> file, copy it up one level to the main profile folder and let it
> overwrite the one that's there. If it is named something other than
> "bookmarks.html" you need to rename it to that after copying it.
>
> --
> Ed Mullen
For some reason that didn't work the first time I tried it. When I
found an even later backup, it worked.
My main problem from the start was in using IMPORT.
Thanks.
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| Miller 2007-06-14, 1:13 am |
| *Cyberiade.it Anonymous Remailer* wrote on 14.06.07 00:53:
> Ed Mullen <ed@edmullen.net> wrote:
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> For some reason that didn't work the first time I tried it. When I
> found an even later backup, it worked.
>
> My main problem from the start was in using IMPORT.
So next time don't import but backup.
The bookmarks scheme of Firefox is as *simple* as that.
cu, Miller
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