[Novices] Broken Firefox

[Brock Inglehart]

On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 13:24 -0400, Bruce Smith wrote:
> > Can we recapture the bookmarks?  If not, thats OK as I can put them  
> > back
> > one at a time.  I am willing to try though with your guidance.
> 
> We can try.
> 
> Before we just renamed the directory where firefox stores all of it's
> settings, bookmarks, cookies, and everything else.
> 
> Then the next time you started firefox, it couldn't find it's  
> directory so
> it created a new one with all fresh/default settings.
> 
> That means your bookmarks still exist in the old/bad directory.  The
> bookmarks itself may or may not be bad.  You can just copy them to
> the new firefox directory and see what happens.
> 
> The bookmarks themselves are in a single file named "bookmarks.html".
> The problem is I can't tell you where exactly to copy them from/to  
> because
> firefox names the directory they reside with a random name.
> 
> The old bookmarks are in (starting with your home directory):
> .mozilla/firefox-save/<some-directory-name>/bookmarks.html

I found that file.  The random name was first before default but it is
the right one because when I opened it one of its files was "bookmarks
html"  The folder/file I found is the old one because I opened it and it
showed all my old bookmarks.

> And they  should be copied to:
> .mozilla/firefox/<some-other-directory-name>/bookmarks.html

Now I'm confused.  Where would I find this new copy of the folders I
just took the file from? 

Brock   
> 
> The "some other directory" usually (but not always) starts with
> the word "default".  You can use the command line OR the file
> manager to copy the bookmarks over.
> 
> Make sure firefox is NOT running when you perform the copy,
> then start firefox and see if your bookmarks are recovered.
> 
> Let us know your progress!
> 
>   - BS
> 
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