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Automatic backup bookmarks to Documents folder so that Windows File History backs it up to my network drive

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grahamht
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Windows File History backs up certain folders ( Documents, Music, Pictures, Videos, and Desktop )to a Network Drive. How do I get Firefox to automatically backup Bookmarks, e.g. when I exit FF, into one of these folders e.g. 'Documents'? So that it is automatically backed up in one place in the event my PC drive crashes.

I spent some time Googling this very simple question and got many confusing and unrelated results!!

Windows File History backs up certain folders ( Documents, Music, Pictures, Videos, and Desktop )to a Network Drive. How do I get Firefox to automatically backup Bookmarks, e.g. when I exit FF, into one of these folders e.g. 'Documents'? So that it is automatically backed up in one place in the event my PC drive crashes. I spent some time Googling this very simple question and got many confusing and unrelated results!!

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Sorry, a feature like that isn't available in Firefox, short of moving your entire Profile folder.

But this extension Pike's Bookmark Backup is capable of doing that.

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the-edmeister
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Sorry, a feature like that isn't available in Firefox, short of moving your entire Profile folder.

But this extension Pike's Bookmark Backup is capable of doing that.

cor-el
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You can make Firefox create an automatic HTML backup (bookmarks.html) when you exit Firefox if you set the browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML pref to true on the about:config page.

That backup is created by default in the profile folder as bookmarks.html, but you can set the file name and path via the browser.bookmarks.file pref on the about:config page.

The browser.bookmarks.file pref doesn't exist by default and you need to create a new String pref with the name browser.bookmarks.file and set the value to the full path of the backup bookmarks file.

Note: an HTML backup doesn't preserve tags and annotations, so you lose those if you need to import the HTML backup.

grahamht
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thanks, I've installed Pike's and it seems to be working. It puts a folder name <day> e.g. "Sunday" in the designated folder, which I placed in myDocs so it should be backed up with File History, each time I exit FF. Not sure what happens at the end of the week, but ideally for my purpose, it overwrites last week.

grahamht
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thanks, I see I posted my reply in the next response.

grahamht
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OK, I guess I just don't understand that Reply does not end up where I expected!!