Where have all my Bookmarks gone?

[Steven Stern]

On 12/07/2010 03:12 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 09:39 -0500, Tom Horsey wrote:
>> On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:25:34 -0600
>> Aaron Konstanz wrote:
>>
>>> What could have happened?
>>
>> Can't tell you what happened, but I can tell you the
>> bookmarks are stashed in the file:
>>
>> ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/places.sqlite
>>
>> Perhaps the sqlite file got clobbered or you
>> somehow changed default profiles?
> Well Ii found the file all right. I did not change profiles. The
> places.sqlite file does not contain anything that looks like my former
> bookmarks. Nor will Firefox display what is in the file as bookmarks.
> So now what?
> 
> I guess I am a traditionalist and long for the good old days when the
> bookmarks were in a bookmarks.html file. Now there is  a bookmarks.html
> file which represents evidently the bookmarks toolbar which seems more
> rational.
> 


sqlite3 -list places.sqlite
sqlite> select * from moz_bookmarks;
sqlite> .quit

(And that's why we make backups. :-) )


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-- Steve