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I reformatted my computer and now cannot find my bookmarks.

Bluefox49
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dupe of https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1015610 - locking


I saved my bookmarks to firefox. Then I reformatted my computer. Now I am looking to find my bookmarks and cannot find them. These bookmarks are vary important to me and I really need to retreive them. Can somewone help me. Thanks.

''dupe of https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1015610 - locking'' I saved my bookmarks to firefox. Then I reformatted my computer. Now I am looking to find my bookmarks and cannot find them. These bookmarks are vary important to me and I really need to retreive them. Can somewone help me. Thanks.

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the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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That re-format would have wiped out Firefox entirely; you should have saved those bookmarks to some sort of external media device, such as a USB Flash stick or CDR.