does windows' system restore take a snapshot of FF and am i able to role back to my old bookmarks that way?
does windows vista's system restore take a snapshot of FF that will allow me to role back to my old bookmarks?
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NO i dont think so. Firefox is just an application. Windows cannot take a snapshot of individual applications and their bookmarks etc. A good way to back up all your staff with just one click on firefox is MOZBACKUP. It backs up your history, bookmarks, cookies, passwords, add-ons and even you personas in just one click, its fantastic.
i used the backup feature and it failed to capture a subfolder called "bookmarks" that i put on one of FF's toolbars. maybe exporting to HTML not JSON would of worked. i have recent JSON files but... there is no bookmarks subfolder in them...
lesson learned.
Did you check all 10 JSON backups in the bookmarkbackups folder?
i loaded a few of them and none had the bookmarks folder that was on my a browser toolbar.
Did you do a search for individual bookmarks that you lost or tried the oldest backup if you had that folder all the time.
It that folder only lasted one session then Firefox may not have saved that folder in a backup (a JSON backup is created on each start if it hasn't done that before on a day).
i created a JSON file before the FF move. JSON files i tried to restore bookmarks from were from dates while i had the folder, yet they did not help it appear in any bookmarks menu or on any taskbar.
six months of bookmarks were in three folders put to a FF taskbar, two folders made it... one named bookmarks did not. it might be a flaw within firefox.
Try to delete the file places.sqlite and see if that makes restoring work better.
A possible cause is a problem with the file places.sqlite that stores the bookmarks and the history.
places.sqlite, i deleted it and tried the same restore methods. that yielded nothing.
i did another full reinstall of FF to test something. i tested both a html and JSON restore of my current bookmarks, both gave me back a bookmarks titled folder on a FF toolbar. this was on a fresh FF install. my previous FF install was updated for many years.