Lost Bookmarks
All my bookmarks disappeared. I followed the instructions on the "help" pages. I went to the list of my profiles and went through each one, trying to restore bookmarks from each profile. But all of my profiles are from 2019; no more recent profiles are listed. Thanks in advance for any advice
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Have you tried using the Firefox Bookmark Manager? ctl+shft+o then the menu at the top > Import and backup > restore : choose file.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/restore-bookmarks-from-backup-or-move-them
See also
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data#w_what-information-is-stored-in-my-profile (also the sections how do I find my profile | ... without opening Firefox) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile
Did you also look on the hard drive in case there are profiles that aren't registered?
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recover-user-data-missing-after-firefox-update
- ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/<profile>
You can check if you have an "Old Firefox Data" folder on the desktop in case the Refresh feature in Firefox has been used and a new profile has been created.
If you use the Time Machine or other backup then try to restore file(s) from this backup.