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Bookmarks backup

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Is there a possibility to get from you a backup of my bookmarks from last week? My Wife did reset the password without reading the the "may delete your history etc" message.


can I get a backup from last week?

Is there a possibility to get from you a backup of my bookmarks from last week? My Wife did reset the password without reading the the "may delete your history etc" message. can I get a backup from last week?

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Restore Bookmark Backups

Firefox automatically makes backups of the bookmarks. These are stored in the bookmarkbackups folder.

Open the Bookmarks Manager; Press the Alt or F10 key to bring up the toolbar, and select Bookmarks. Hot key is <Control> (Mac=<Command>) <Shift> B. Firefox 84+ <Control> (Mac=<Command>) <Shift> O.

Once the window is open, at the top of the page, press the button labeled Import and Backup. Select Restore. From the list, pick the file you want and click it.

The backups are stored in a jsonlz4 file named something like this; bookmarks-2016-06-29_1424_enD1GTH ya0JmicnYWg4V4g==.jsonlz4

In this example; 2016-06-29 = date created, 1424 = number of entries.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/restore-bookmarks-from-backup-or-move-them

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recover-lost-or-missing-bookmarks

https://support.mozilla.org/kb/forum-response-recover-bookmarks-after-update

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There is no backup from last week. one more thing my OS was re-installed you think that is the problem why i don't see more backups?

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When you reinstalled the operating system, did you choose to save your files? Look for a folder called Windows.old in your user folder and in c:\