I seem to have lost all my bookmarks in FireFox.

**Smith** · 03-15-2006, 12:43 AM

They have all disapered on me, how do I get them back?

**Damnatory** · 03-15-2006, 05:10 AM

The only thing I can think of, which is a rather far fetched idea, is try a system restore point from a couple of days ago... Aside from that I couldn't tell you.

**Smith** · 03-15-2006, 07:40 PM

This has happened before, and I posted on this forum and someone gave me an answer that worked. But I cant find the post.

Anyone else?

**Smith** · 03-15-2006, 07:59 PM

I think I may have accidentally swiched profiles, how do I swich profiles with 1.5?

I cant edit the shortcut....

**tesco** · 03-15-2006, 08:02 PM

You could have found it in search but here's what happened.
Your firefox crashed, but the firefox.exe was still running.
When you opened a new firefox it created a new profile because your old one was in use by the crashed firefox.

To copy your bookmarks over go to
c:\documents and settings\your name\application data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
Click each profile until you find the one with your good bookmarks.html, then copy it into the other profile folder...or import it into firefox

**twisterX** · 03-15-2006, 10:37 PM

^ I hate when that happends but if the firefox.exe is running I can't open up firefox untill i terminate it.

Also when you get it back make a backup just in case by going to Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks > File > Export.

**tesco** · 03-16-2006, 07:25 AM

Ya I don't think the profile problem happens anymore since v1.5.
I haven't had it happen to me atleast.

**Damnatory** · 03-16-2006, 09:06 AM

You should also be able to open your task manager and end the process for Firefox, then re-open the application and it will open with the default profile.