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I saved ex bookmarks Im trying to find it on my new hard drive but I cant find the format they are on so I cant find them hard drive so i could import them...

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theonelatvia
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I saved ex bookmarks Im trying to find it on my new hard drive but I cant find the format they are on so I cant find them hard drive so i could import them... Could you give me the format they are saved on so I could find them on my harddrive or how to automaticly import them

I saved ex bookmarks Im trying to find it on my new hard drive but I cant find the format they are on so I cant find them hard drive so i could import them... Could you give me the format they are saved on so I could find them on my harddrive or how to automaticly import them

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tsiolkas
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It depends how you choose to save them. If you selected backup then the file has a .json extension. Otherwise it is an HTML file.

Hope that it helps.

cor-el
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Make sure that the bookmarks backup file has the correct (lowercase) file extension:

  • .html for a HTML backup
  • .json for a JSON backup

You can check the file type via the right-click context menu of that file and open the Properties.
If you are not sure about the file type then you can open the file in Firefox via "Firefox > New Tab > Open File" or "File > Open File".
A JSON backup will show as one long text line without line breaks and a HTML backup shows as a web page with clickable links. 

A  JSON backup starts with: {"title":"","id":1,"dateAdded":
An HTML backup starts with: <!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1>