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I'm a teacher with synced Firefox. Student deleted bookmarks yesterday. How can recover these bookmarks if they weren't backed up by me?

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scottlaura2
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I have had Science LInks and Social Studies Links in separate folders in the toolbar all school year. Yesterday, a student somehow deleted the Science Links folder. I haven't performed a backup. When I go to restore, the most recent date is back in August. Does Firefox automatically backup every so often? If so, how can I restore the bookmarks from yesterday or even last week? Please help.

I have had Science LInks and Social Studies Links in separate folders in the toolbar all school year. Yesterday, a student somehow deleted the Science Links folder. I haven't performed a backup. When I go to restore, the most recent date is back in August. Does Firefox automatically backup every so often? If so, how can I restore the bookmarks from yesterday or even last week? Please help.

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the-edmeister
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Firefox saves the ten most recent bookmarks; for the last ten days that Firefox was used.

See this: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/restore-bookmarks-from-backup-or-move-them

scottlaura2
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I do not see the last 10 days of automatic backup. I just see dates to Restore from August. How do I access the last 10 days of back that Firefox does automatically?

cor-el
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Did you try to do a search in case the folder got moved into another folder?

Are you closing Firefox each day?

Firefox creates a JSON backup in the bookmarkbackups folder each day that you start Firefox up to a maximum of 10.

You can use this button to go to the Firefox profile folder: