[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: My bookmarks file went 'poof'

[Dina Lerret]

On 6/14/05, Steve <bboyminn at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On the off chance that you were using Netscape, Mozilla, or Foxfire
> browser, you book marks are kept in a file called 'bookmarks.html'.
> 
> If you search your harddrive, you may be able to find a back-up or
> older copy of the file. Keep in mind that other programs sometime use
> a similarly named file, but the Folder where you find this bookmark
> file should tell you if it's related to your browser.

Actually, I was using Firefox.  The default one in the program folder
isn't useful (y'know, the one that pops up upon installing with
various search engine links).  I went to windows/applications/mozilla
and found my user (the default under there) and both the
bookmarks.html and bookmarks.bak are 423byte files (essentially
completely empty), went through the cache and nothing, searched my
harddrive for 'bookmark' and all the wrong files that were too old or
empty popped up, and... I had to resort to MozBack-up for my November
2004 bookmarks.  I did back-up my user folder before restoring the old
file but I believe my bookmark file is gone.

Good way to start off the morning and I had to dash to work not long
after.  Firefox crashed but I had an 'auto save' open tabs going on. 
When the tabs reopened, all my bookmarks were gone.  I had that 'save
open tabs' extension for many months and hadn't had a problem and I
had not added on any other extensions within the past two months.

Thanks for the suggestions, anyway.

Dina