how do I view bookmarks from a saved profile from 7 months ago
I am missing some bookmarks. I must have accidentally deleted them some time ago. I have an old profile saved from 6-7 months ago that would have the missing bookmarks. How can I open one of the backup bookmarks files from the old profile or convert it to html?
I know how to export to html but that appears to not give me the option of selecting a specific file to convert. Conversion only converts existing bookmarks to html which will not help me, if I understand correctly what I have read. I know how to restore the bookmarks but my understanding is that they are then added to existing bookmarks. I don't want to do that because probably 95% of my current bookmarks are in the older much larger version I have saved in the old profile plus much more that I wanted to get rid of.
I was thinking of exporting to internet explorer, since I never use it and it has no bookmarks. I don't know how to select a specific bookmark file for export or if it is even possible to do that. If I can do that, however, I can search the bookmarks there for what I need and then add them back to FF.
Can you help we with this. Thank you for your assistance.
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hello prh1217, i would use a portable firefox version, which you can use beside your already installed firefox. import the bookmark backup into the portable app, edit the bookmarks as you need and export them again...
Do you have an HTML backup of the bookmarks?
If you only have a backup of the entire profile folder then probably only the places.sqlite file in that backup has all bookmarks.
You can open a second Firefox instance with that saved profile folder at the same time and copy the wanted bookmarks to the clipboard in the Library in one instance and paste them in the Library in the other instance.
You can select more than one item via the normal way (Shift click for a range or Ctrl click for individual items).
Create a shortcut with this command line to start a second Firefox instance with a path to a specific profile folder (in this case the backup).
- "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -no-remote -profile "<profile_path>"
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Command_Line_Options
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Opening_a_new_instance_of_Firefox_with_another_profile
You can use the Profile Manager to create a new profile and copy the places.sqlite file to that profile folder or import a JSON backup.
my bookmark sometime goes wrong like this when i open one website which saved as a bookmark, but it turn to be another one, i am little confused for this. for example each time i saved http://www.rasteredge.com this one, it never goes wright.
You can check for problems with the places.sqlite database file in the Firefox Profile Folder.