What is the best way of backing up bookmarks to an external hard drive?
I'm helping someone setup a backup routine on their laptop, and would like to include her Firefox bookmarks. With IE, I normally move my favorites folder under My Documents, so when I backup the My Documents folders I always have my favorites. I wasn unable to find a similar ability with Firefox, so I wasn't sure how to go about backup her bookmarks. My preferred option would be do to something similar with Firefox (i.e., move bookmarks), but since that doens't seem feasible, I'd like to know what specific folder I need to add to my backup routine to backup the bookmarks. Thanks.
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From the bookmarks window accessed through "Show All Bookmarks", use the "Import and Backup" toolbar button, and choose Backup, then browse to the path where you want the backup to go.
Thanks for the quick response. Let me clarify my question. I want to be able to configure my backup software to access and backup Firefox bookmarks. I would normally do this by telling the backup software which folder to add to the backup. My preference is to use the actual (current) bookmarks, rather than a backup, but if I have to create a backup in order to do this, I guess I'll do that.
Hope this makes sense, but let me know if you have any questions.
You can backup the JSON backups in the bookmarkbackups folder that Firefox creates each day that you start Firefox.
You can also make Firefox create an HTML backup each time you close Firefox.
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