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Is there any way to recover lost bookmarks?

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I have lost all my bookmarks after changing places.sqlite to places.sqlite.old in Help>Troubleshooting Information>Open Folder! Is there any way to recover those bookmarks?

I have lost all my bookmarks after changing places.sqlite to places.sqlite.old in Help>Troubleshooting Information>Open Folder! Is there any way to recover those bookmarks?

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Why did you rename that file? Was there a problem?

Restore Bookmark Backups

Firefox automatically makes backups of the bookmarks. These are stored in the bookmarkbackups folder.

Open the Bookmarks Manager; Press the Alt or F10 key to bring up the toolbar, and select Bookmarks. Hot key is <Control> (Mac=<Command>) <Shift> B.

Once the window is open, at the top of the page, press the button labeled Import and Backup. Select Restore. From the list, pick the file you want and click it.

The backups are stored in a jsonlz4 file named something like this; bookmarks-2016-06-29_1424_enD1GTH ya0JmicnYWg4V4g==.jsonlz4

In this example; 2016-06-29 = date created, 1424 = number of entries.