Missing Bookmarks

I've been running Netscape 7 for about a month and have had very little trouble with it. However today I lost about 1/3 of my bookmarks. No reason or explanation they were just gone. I haden't downloaded anything or changed any of the settings in the preferences. Anyone else have this problem??
There wasn't any problem in transfering them from 4.7 either.
HELP!!

 

Welcome to the Forum, smylie!

Hi smylie,

Do you still have Netscape 4.7x on your system? If so, you can copy the Bookmark file in 4.7x Users folder to your 7.0 Profiles folder.

With Netscape closed:
rename the bookmarks.html file in your 7.0 Profiles folder to Xbookmarks.html

copy the bookmark.htm file in your 4.7x and paste it into your 7.0 salted folder and rename the file to bookmarks.html

4.7x Users:
C:\Program Files\Netscape\Users\yourusername

7.0 Salted:
C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\yourusername\xxxxxxxx.slt

I've not had this experience, and it is unusual that the Bookmarks disappeared for no reason? You might want to start backing up your Profiles folder 2 or 3xweekly.

Have you by chance opened your bookmarks.html file in Notepad, or Wordpad if the file is large, and looked for the missing Bookmarks?

Let us know if you have further questions.

Ramona

 

Yes, I opened the file and they are in fact there!!! How come they don't show up when I open the bar in Netscape???? Thanks for the help, but is there anymore left in the magic hat????

Smylie

 

Hi smylie,

Which "bar" did you open, by chance the Personal Toolbar? Also, have you looked in your Bookmark Manager to see if those missing Bookmarks show up there as well?

I'm thinking that maybe you have inadvertently clicked on one of the small down arrows on a Toolbar. I hope it's that simple.

You didn't say whether or not you have a backup.

Ramona

Another thought....
In the View menu, Show/Hide, have you selected all the Toolbars?

 

Here's the long and short of it!!!!!!!!!! Netscape 7 for some reason stores its files in a new place other than the Netscape file under Programs. It seems to want to store them under windows/ application data to the user name to blah, blah, blah. Anyway I compared file sizes between the 2 different bookmark files and there was a difference. So I just 86ed the partial file and copied the old one in it's place. Didn't work!!!!!!!! As there is a difference between the 2 files.... the difference is that the old file is "bookmark.htm" and the new file has to read "bookmarks.html "....... Made the name change to the file and got all the bookmarks back
Thanks for the point in the right direction.......

Smylie

 

If you add this line to your prefs.js or user.js file you can store your bookmarks where you like.

user_pref( "browser.bookmarks.file ", "<drive>:\\<folder-path>\\bookmarks.html ");

for example

user_pref( "browser.bookmarks.file ", "K:\\work\\moz\\bookmarks.html ");

tranquilo