NScape 7 ate my bookmarks ...

...when I deleted it from the startup/tray list. I keep a reasonably up-to-date copy of my bookmarks on another drive, but when I copy it to my profile in Mozilla, the application overwrites it with a blank list (240 bytes vs 225k bytes). How do I make it accept the copy? No doubt my mail is gone as well. Sigh.
O.

 

Hi Oyster,

To ensure that we are on the same page, are you saying that you disabled Quick Launch, which removed the icon from the System Tray, and then your Bookmarks were gone?

I can't imagine why this would have trashed your Bookmarks file? I'm not clear on whether or not your Mail is missing too? Could you give us more detail, so we may better help you troubleshoot your problems.

Have you done a "Find" for bookmarks.html? That should find your Bookmarks, and your Mail folder, if in fact you have lost your Mail.

Thanks,

Ramona

 

Thanks, Ramona. It's a good thing I backed up my Docs and Settings directory a couple of months ago, and my desktop manager can read hidden files. I have most of my Bmarks back, and of course some of the mail. Recent mail is a dead loss however.

Yes, I used Startup Control, Mike Lin's very well behaved utility, to drop NScape from the startup list. I'd done it before, no problem. But this time -- perhaps related to an install immediately before of the notoriously buggy and arrogant Nero Burn 6, NScape (or something) simply erased my profile with all its pomps and works, and offered me instead an introduction to the thrilling world of the internet. A machine-wide search reveals no trace of the mail.

It's not a problem. I file important mail as a file far, far away from my browsers. I was surprised to discover, however, that other copies of bookmarks.html saved by a simple disk-to-disk copy, would not import. Only that copy in the Docs & Sets would come in. Puzzling, since that too was a simple copy.

Regards and Thanks,
O.

 

Hi Oyster,

Sorry to hear about the loss of Mail. Backup is so important with Netscape 7, as it is very contrary, and especially with Windows XP. You can do a copy/paste of your bookmarks.html file to your *.slt folder. Just rename the existing bookmarks.html (Xbookmarks.html) which will also give you a backup in the event of disaster.

Ramona