I updated Firefox and lost all my bookmarks.
I updated my old MacBook from OSX 10.5.8 to 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) this week. I updated Firefox as suggested and everything worked fine. But today, when I signed on, I got a weird, old version of Firefox -- version 3.6.13, something I hadn't used in several years. The really bad part -- all my bookmarks are missing. I re-updated to the newest Firefox I could use (31.0) but the bookmarks are still gone. I've gone back through Time Machine and restored to the version I had last week, but the bookmarks are missing from that version, too. Any idea what's going on? Thanks for any and all help.
I updated my old MacBook from OSX 10.5.8 to 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) this week. I updated Firefox as suggested and everything worked fine. But today, when I signed on, I got a weird, old version of Firefox -- version 3.6.13, something I hadn't used in several years. The really bad part -- all my bookmarks are missing. I re-updated to the newest Firefox I could use (31.0) but the bookmarks are still gone. I've gone back through Time Machine and restored to the version I had last week, but the bookmarks are missing from that version, too. Any idea what's going on? Thanks for any and all help.
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You can check for problems with the places.sqlite database file in the Firefox profile folder.
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Bookmarks+not+saved#w_fix-the-bookmarks-file
- Places Maintenance: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/places-maintenance/