Help! Bookmarks and Passwords Lost After 7.2 upgrade

Hi all:

I was doing some housecleaning and deleted the Netscape shortcut off my desktop. I thought I had performed every upgrade, because usually, I import my bookmarks and prefs somewhere before doing it.

So after I had deleted my shortcut, I used the taskbar icon instead, and low and behold - the 7.2 upgrade screen comes up.

I frantically search - and yep, it had deleted my bookmarks and passwords. Fortunately, I have Norton's undelete, so I went looking.

I think I found the .slt file and the prefs, but nothing looks familiar.

I do have a backup of my bookmarks that goes back to December 03, but I really would like my passwords back, and I know I haven't saved those.

Can someone help me restore this?

Thanks a bunch!

Jill

 

I think I may have figured it out!

Ok - so I'm replying to my post!
After reading Ramona's helpful files, I successfully restored my bookmarks, only partially thankfully due to Norton's undelete (there was a bookmarks.html.mztmp file in there that I could convert to a imported bookmark file), but now I need to clarify how I'll restore my password file.

I went ahead and made some passwords in order to generate a new .s file. I see one already there with a 4xxxxxxx.s that is 120 kb - I'm assuming that's the one I want! And when I generated the new file, it is a 6xxxxxxx.s file.

In order to get my passwords back, I want to rename that 4.s file to the new number beginning with the 6, right?

I just wanted to talk it through and confirm before I did it.

I will now dutifully back up my profiles folder so that this doesn't happen again, although I'm not sure how pressing the icon on the task bar suddenly re-upgrades you again.

Unless....I didn't install properly the first time - I upgraded via disk so I assumed everything would merge, profiles and all, since I never got a migration screen merging my profiles.

Thanks for your consideration, everyone!

Jill

 

Jill,
you did quite well, but the problem does not lie on what you have now, but rather on what you had in the past. If you had an earlier version of Netscape, and not removed it, or installed on top of it.
You are not going to get any migration screen, but you may have problems.

I just wanted to see what happen after my post. What are the hyperlinks in your post. All we need are more ads!

 

Jill,

You are correct:

Now that you have created a password file, 6xxxxxxx.s
• Copy the 4xxxxxxxx.s password file from the OLD salted folder, to the new salted folder.
• Rename the newly created password file to X6xxxxxx.s
• Rename the OLD password file from 4xxxxxxx.s, to 6xxxxxxx.s

In Edit | Preferences | Advanced | Software Installation
Disable: Enable software installation
Dissable: Check for updates

It's best to do this on an "as needed" basis. This way you are in control, and not the software.

Ramona