I deleted my Firefox browser and my bookmarks accidentally, how would i recover it !!
Hi, I deleted Firefox in Add/Remove programs with my bookmarks accidentally trying to delete another program .After i had deleted Firefox by mistake I realised i had lost all of my bookmarks aswell.What i had tried to do was to go bck to an earlier restore point but Firefox will not appear and neither will my bookmarks.
Afterwards I looked up how to restore Firefox and bumped into Bellbill's thread and the-edmeister who recommended a recovering software called Recuva. After i had downloaded Recuva I ran a deep scan with Recuva and it has brought up alot of files. When i had made a normal scan it had found 4595 files (369 ignored) = 4964 files.When i had made a deep scan it had found 5090 files (0 ignored) NTFS 37.2 GB. The problem is the files are identified as numbers and i cannot identify the files that contain Firefox and the bookmarks.
Another suggestion was that i could download a new Firefox browser and the bookmarks would automatically appear on the new firefox.
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Did you remove all personal data when you removed Firefox?
If not then reinstalling Firefox should bring back all profile data.
If you removed the profile folder than you need to use Recuva to restore that directory structure with the files in it.
- XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>\
It takes a large measure of luck to restore bookmarks deleted in that manner. That is why it is always a good precaution to have some backup method, such as
- manually backing up bookmarks every now and again
- keeping them on another computer, maybe using firefox sync
- using some utility, either specifically to back up firefox profiles or bookmarks, or your computers important files.
Recovery by using Recuva, probably depends on having a lot of free space and not having used the computer much since the problem occurred.
You may have much more luck with 'restore points' but that will depend on what created them and what they contain. If you have the facility to recover and extract individual files that will help, it will allow you to recover a profile from a recent date, and that contains multiple files with bookmarks in them.
Are you able to extract individual files and folders from your recovery points, and do the recovery points include the Firefox profile ?
( If so the places.sqlite file is the bookmarks and history database, and you will also have other bookmark backups within the profile, it is pretty easy to use those to restore bookmarks) Take care, any restores are likely to overwrite existing bookmarks, back up existing ones first (If you only have a few new bookmarks back up also as html they can then be re-imported and appended to your old bookmarks if you find them)
- see also backing up and restoring bookmarks