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ACCIDENTALY DELETED SOME SYNC DATA (TAB) WITH HUNDREDS OF BOOK MARKS IN IT....CAN I RECOVER IT ??

rdw5
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Hi I goofed Was was sorting and organizing hundred of bookmarks in my Firefox sync I had the all stored in one tab ( column/ header ) I accidentally deleted this tab and all its subordinate data The data is very important Is there any way to recover this or restore it ??

Hi I goofed Was was sorting and organizing hundred of bookmarks in my Firefox sync I had the all stored in one tab ( column/ header ) I accidentally deleted this tab and all its subordinate data The data is very important Is there any way to recover this or restore it ??

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Hi, don't close your Firefox.

When you say you were "in" Firefox Sync, I'm not sure where you were editing.

If you deleted Bookmarks in your current installation of Firefox:

Try the "Undo" feature in the Library window:

menu button > Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks

then: Organize > Undo

As with text editing, you may need to Undo multiple times to roll back individual edits to the point you're looking for.

If Firefox was already closed and reopened, that won't work. Next thing would be to restore a backup:

(1) EXPORT the bookmarks you have now so you can keep it for reference on other edits/changes.

Export Firefox bookmarks to an HTML file to back up or transfer bookmarks

After creating the bookmarks.html file, open it in a tab to confirm that the export worked.

(2) RESTORE the last automatic backup using the steps in this article:

Restore bookmarks from backup or move them to another computer

Any progress so far?

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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More generally: to reopen a closed tab, either:

  • Ctrl+Shift+T
  • menu button > History > Recently closed tabs
  • (menu bar) History > Recently closed tabs