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trouble saving bookmarks and backing them up

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DahliaGA
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I have used Mozilla for years. In the last several weeks I have been having trouble with bookmarks. This since my latest upgrade. I can't save bookmarks and I have lost 90% of my saved bookmarks. I have some of them saved in my bookmark folder but when I try and restore them it says the file is not usable. I unistalled the program and reinstalled with the same problem still there. Please help!!

I have used Mozilla for years. In the last several weeks I have been having trouble with bookmarks. This since my latest upgrade. I can't save bookmarks and I have lost 90% of my saved bookmarks. I have some of them saved in my bookmark folder but when I try and restore them it says the file is not usable. I unistalled the program and reinstalled with the same problem still there. Please help!!

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A possible cause is a problem with the file places.sqlite that stores the bookmarks and the history.

You can check if you still have a JSON backup in the bookmarkbackups with the lost bookmarks.
You can look at the file size.

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the-edmeister
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Firefox automatically saves 10 bookmark backups.

https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Lost+Bookmarks

DahliaGA
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....and your point is. I can't manually save bookmarks nor can I restore my saved bookmarks

cor-el
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A possible cause is a problem with the file places.sqlite that stores the bookmarks and the history.

You can check if you still have a JSON backup in the bookmarkbackups with the lost bookmarks.
You can look at the file size.

Hasan
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see the links provided..

Modified by Hasan

DahliaGA
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Thanks folks. It worked and I can restore and save again. I lost a lot of them permanently but they are replaceable.