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Places.sqlite file is corrupted when I log out of linux

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I'm running Fedora 13 and have just installed Firefox 23, leaving the RPM-supplied version in place (as I plan on upgrading Fedora sooner or later anyway). I created a second profile for the new installation, and imported bookmarks and other configuration. When I close Firefox and re-start, no problems; when I log out of Linux, though, and log on again, I find a places.sqlite.corrupt file in my profile directory (containing my real bookmarks) and a tiny places.sqlite containing default bookmarks. Obviously renaming the "corrupt" file to the right name gets my bookmarks back.

I'm running Fedora 13 and have just installed Firefox 23, leaving the RPM-supplied version in place (as I plan on upgrading Fedora sooner or later anyway). I created a second profile for the new installation, and imported bookmarks and other configuration. When I close Firefox and re-start, no problems; when I log out of Linux, though, and log on again, I find a places.sqlite.corrupt file in my profile directory (containing my real bookmarks) and a tiny places.sqlite containing default bookmarks. Obviously renaming the "corrupt" file to the right name gets my bookmarks back.

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Did you try to make Firefox generate a new places.sqlite file by removing all places files?

That should make Firefox use a JSON backup in the bookmarkbackups folder to create a new places.sqlite database file.

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Did you try to make Firefox generate a new places.sqlite file by removing all places files?

That should make Firefox use a JSON backup in the bookmarkbackups folder to create a new places.sqlite database file.

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Aha! Yes, that worked. (My formhistory.sqlite was also getting corrupted, as I discovered shortly after posting this, and the same trick worked for it too.) Thank you!

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It is possible that the current Firefox version uses a more recent SQLite version then was used in older SQLite database files and then things can go wrong (there is usually migration code when updating).