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how to reload bookmarks from a data recovery after bad hard drive?

mwpamela
mwpamela
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My hard drive crashed and had to be replaced. I got most of my data recovered, but my bookmarks are only in a file called Favorites as internet shortcuts on my backup. The Mozilla profiles and sglite files did not make it. How can I move those bookmark files back into my Firefox? I am using Windows 7 if it makes a difference.

My hard drive crashed and had to be replaced. I got most of my data recovered, but my bookmarks are only in a file called Favorites as internet shortcuts on my backup. The Mozilla profiles and sglite files did not make it. How can I move those bookmark files back into my Firefox? I am using Windows 7 if it makes a difference.

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Matt_G
Matt_G
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Hi mwpamela,

You might want to take a look at the Knowledge Base article Recover important data from an old profile. There is a lot of information in there that might be helpful in your situation.

Hopefully this helps!

the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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Firefox can't handle the Favorites internet shortcuts. You need to get that data into IE and then Export in HTML format to have it in a format which Firefox can deal with.