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I had to restore my computer from back up. . everything looks great and is the SAME. Except my Firefox book marks are all gone, and replaced with book marks fr

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krisward
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I had to restore my computer from back up. . everything looks great and is the SAME. Except my Firefox book marks are all gone, and replaced with book marks from YEARS ago. I rely on them heavily.

Now, do know - I also was prompted to set up a Mozilla account. . for Firefox, I did that and then the bookmarks on my tool bar are old like from 8 years ago. Not the ones I use every day, all day.

I had to restore my computer from back up. . everything looks great and is the SAME. Except my Firefox book marks are all gone, and replaced with book marks from YEARS ago. I rely on them heavily. Now, do know - I also was prompted to set up a Mozilla account. . for Firefox, I did that and then the bookmarks on my tool bar are old like from 8 years ago. Not the ones I use every day, all day.

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FredMcD
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The backup that you used, did you keep it up to date?

What about your history? Any problems? Note, these are kept in the same file.

Places Maintenance {web link} Allows to run Maintenance tasks on the database that drives Places, the bookmarks and history module behind Firefox.

Open the Add-ons Manager. Locate the add-on and press the Options button. Then follow the directions.

krisward
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Yes, my history for the whole computer was done hourly. And everything else is fine.The history doesn't show the bookmarks either . . it's has a few book marks from like 6 years ago.

FredMcD
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krisward said

Yes, my history for the whole computer was done hourly

Please explain what you mean by this.

cor-el
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Did you backup the Firefox profile folder before restoring the computer?

You would have to restore the bookmarks from a JSON backup or restore the places.sqlite if your Firefox profile folder was restored as well.

You can use this button to go to the current Firefox profile folder:

You can copy files like these to the current Firefox profile folder to recover specific data.

  • bookmarks and history: places.sqlite
  • bookmark backups: JSON backups in the bookmarkbackups folder
  • SQLite files like cookies.sqlite (cookies) and formhistory.sqlite (saved form data)
  • logins.json and key3.db (decryption key) for Passwords saved in the Password Manager
  • cert8.db and possibly cert_override.txt for (intermediate) certificates stored in the Certificate Manager
  • persdict.dat for words you added to the spelling checker dictionary
  • permissions.sqlite for Permissions and possibly content-prefs.sqlite for other Site Preferences
  • sessionstore.js for open tabs and pinned tabs and tab groups