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i have reinstalled windows 7 and lost my bookmarks from yesterday. How do I recover them

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steeps3553
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Ihave tried to recover from bookmarks-12-11-20.json but this doesn't seem to have them. I am looking for the bookmarks that were on my PC yesterda. I would be very grateful if you could help. They are very important to me.

Ihave tried to recover from bookmarks-12-11-20.json but this doesn't seem to have them. I am looking for the bookmarks that were on my PC yesterda. I would be very grateful if you could help. They are very important to me.

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user633449
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Did you save the Firefox profile folder before you reinstalled? Back up and restore information in Firefox profiles Recover important data from an old profile

cor-el
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Did you check one of the older JSON backups (there should be 10)?

You can also check for problems with the places.sqlite database file in the Firefox Profile Folder.

steeps3553
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Many thanks for the suggestions. I only had the one json file and that had nothing in it. I have decided to start again and adding the bookmarks as I go along. Many thanks again.