Talk:Lost bookmarks

We should scrape some data out of here http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=290060 --Np 10:20, 15 Aug 2005 (PDT) (done) --Np 10:46, 16 Aug 2005 (PDT)

That ref. refers back to this article! [[User:AnotherGuest.|AnotherGuest.]

I removed the System Restore recovery method since it doesn't restore personal data files such as those stored in the user profile. See http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/plan/faqsrwxp.mspx Alice 03:11, 14 September 2005 (PDT)

"The simple method -- Automatic searching" (added section)

Added a simple search method. People need simple instructions. I think if they find multiple files, they can deal with deciding which one, but they can't always deal with complicated instructions just to find the file. They find one of many, and it's the wrong one, etc. We just had a Mac user who claims she spent a week searching day and night for her bookmarks, when she could have found them in seconds with a simple file search. [[User:AnotherGuest.|AnotherGuest.]

The first sentence of the article tells you where to look for the bookmarks: Firefox and Mozilla Suite store your bookmarks in the file "bookmarks.html" located in the profile folder and changes you make to your bookmarks are saved in this file.. If you follow the profile folder link, the section Profile_folder#For_Windows_2000_and_XP_users includes information for Windows 2000/XP on how to search hidden files and folders. I think that information on how to search for the bookmarks file belongs as a "Note" in the introduction, if anywhere. Alice Wyman 18:38, 14 March 2006 (UTC).

OK, I incorporated your addition and the part of the Intro having to do with bookmark file location into a new "Background" section. Alice Wyman 19:43, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

You say the file is in the profile folder. There may be more than one folder. Also, there are 6 backup files, not 5. There's "bookmarks.bak". --AnotherGuest.

If there's more than one folder, the user set it up himself with a different name so probably knows what's going on. The article correctly states there are 5 dated backup files.--Np 19:22, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Background

AnotherGuest, you added the following sentence to this section: "Note also that for searching it is not sufficient to check "Show hidden files and folders" in Windows Explorer. You must set this option in the Search box." However, this claim does not appear to hold true on my Windows 2000 system. Please could you or somebody else confirm that this is true on WinXP, and if so, amend this article and the Profile Folder article. (If it really is true for WinXP then that O/S is even more of a bad joke than I had thought....) Cheers --Mozcerize 16:14, 12 July 2006 (UTC)