On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 1:43 PM, Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net> wrote:
On 02/07/2018 12:23 PM, JD wrote:
>
>
> On 02/07/2018 01:01 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>
>> On 02/07/2018 09:44 AM, JD wrote:
>>
>>> What is the best way to import the bookmarks file from one profile into
>>> another?
>>>
>>
>> If you open the bookmarks window on the first profile, you can export to
>> HTML. Then you can do import from HTML on the other profile.
>>
> Hi Sam,
> It seems that all the backup bookmarks are either in some sort of
> compressed or encrypted format.
>
Mozilla uses a custom LZ4 compression on those file.
When I use the shell "file" command on the backup files,
> it says they are "data".
> Here is a list of hte backup files:
> bookmarks-2017-08-06_24_OZipyb+ChF8R9Bh+1qM4JQ==.jsonlz4
>
> Am I supposed to first pass them through some other utility to convert
> them to plain html?
>
You're using the wrong option. You would have to use the "Restore" option
and that would wipe out all your existing bookmarks first. In the
bookmarks window (try CTRL-SHIFT-o), there's an option under the "Import
and Backup" menu to "Export Bookmarks as HTML". Use that. You'll also
see
there the corresponding "Import Bookmarks from HTML".
Well, i just used the restore and I got
"
Unable to process the backup file.
"
on ever instance of the backup bookmarks files that
are in that profile I wanted to import them from.