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Bookmarks gone after installing version 33.1.1 Not able to restore them from a backup

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After installing 33.1.1. everthing worked fine. The morning afther however alle bookmarks were gone. The backup files still exist. But I am not able to restore the bookmarks from these back up files made by FireFox. So now all my bookmarks are gone. Who can help me solve the problem? (Note I did try to restore from the back up files *.JSONZ4)

After installing 33.1.1. everthing worked fine. The morning afther however alle bookmarks were gone. The backup files still exist. But I am not able to restore the bookmarks from these back up files made by FireFox. So now all my bookmarks are gone. Who can help me solve the problem? (Note I did try to restore from the back up files *.JSONZ4)

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Did you do this;

Bookmark Backups

Type about:support<Enter> in the address bar.

Under the page logo on the left side you will see Application Basics. Under this find Profile Folder. To it’s right press the button Show Folder. This will open your file browser to the current Firefox profile. Now Close Firefox.

Enter the bookmarkbackups folder. This is where Firefox makes backups of your bookmarks. Look for the jsonlz4 file you want to restore (check the time / date / size). Right click on that file and select Copy. Now go back to the profile folder where you started. Rename the file places.sqlite by adding .old to it. Now right click in the folder and select Paste. The file you just pasted here, rename it to places.sqlite. After you are done, restart Firefox.


https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-to-fix-preferences-wont-save

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Did you do this;

Bookmark Backups

Type about:support<Enter> in the address bar.

Under the page logo on the left side you will see Application Basics. Under this find Profile Folder. To it’s right press the button Show Folder. This will open your file browser to the current Firefox profile. Now Close Firefox.

Enter the bookmarkbackups folder. This is where Firefox makes backups of your bookmarks. Look for the jsonlz4 file you want to restore (check the time / date / size). Right click on that file and select Copy. Now go back to the profile folder where you started. Rename the file places.sqlite by adding .old to it. Now right click in the folder and select Paste. The file you just pasted here, rename it to places.sqlite. After you are done, restart Firefox.


https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-to-fix-preferences-wont-save