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I lost all the bookmarks on my bookmark toolbar when I copied places-sqlite from my old to new profile folder.

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Basically I refreshed all my Firefox today and later on went to move some files from the old profile folder to the new. (I should have left it alone.) Anyway, after moving places.sqlite from the old to new I lost all my bookmarks on the toolbar and a lot of my other ones. What did I do wrong? How can I fix it?

Basically I refreshed all my Firefox today and later on went to move some files from the old profile folder to the new. (I should have left it alone.) Anyway, after moving places.sqlite from the old to new I lost all my bookmarks on the toolbar and a lot of my other ones. What did I do wrong? How can I fix it?

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The places.sqlite file stores the bookmarks and the history, so if you replace the current version with another copy then you lose all current bookmarks and history. I don't know why you did restore that copy. You can restore the bookmarks via one of the backups in the bookmarkbackups folder, but that will replace all the current bookmarks as well. If you need to keep some then remove the others and export the bookmarks to an HTML file. Then you can import this HTML file to merge those bookmarks.

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Well, I got my bookmarks back but not by the way you mentioned. I'm not actually sure how I did it, to be honest.

I was trying to access a backup I had on an external hard drive to copy the bookmark backups from there and restore them that way.

I got what I assumed was the right file, copied it to my desktop, and when I opened Firefox again, without actually restoring from the backup, the bookmarks were back on the toolbar. I have no idea why.