My Mozilla Firefox Deletes my Bookmarks and etc.

[NotYouHaha]

Help, my Mozilla Firefox deletes all my bookmarks and several other things once in a while. It has already deleted them twice.

Please if you have any information on:

• what is doing this
  
• how to prevent this
  
• how to cover information lost
  

Or anything else, please reply and help me.

If you need to ask any questions to will help you help me, please ask them.

[Thomas.]

automatic Updates do this. It might be a good idea to make a back up of your Bookmarks. You may have to stop Mozilla from doing updates by going into settings in order to prevent it.

[Deji]

easy way to back em up... Save the bookmarks on Internet Explorer and then go to File > Import ect...

[NotYouHaha]

Thanks, I've disabled Firefox from having automatic updates, but according to my Update History list, it says my last update was on April 17th, 2008, but the bookmarks had been deleted a few days ago, and it's May 26, 2008 today. I don't think that updates to Firefox was the cause.

And thanks Deji, for the back-up idea by using Internet Explorer. The only back-up idea I was thinking of was saving my bookmarks in a word document.

Edited May 26, 2008 by NotYouHaha

[Gerard]

You can backup your bookmarks in Firefox by going to Organise Bookmarks then go to File, Export. Then you can put em back by going to Import.

[Dark Lord]

In Your OS Partition > Program Files > Document And Settings > User Name (Or Administrator) > Application Data > Mozzila > Firefox > xyz.default (folder) > Bookmarksbackup.

Usually there is an automation backup of them.Addons and Passwords wont be there though.

This is usually caused by some unsigned Addons.Used to happen to me a lot before.

[The Bossman]

I think with the newest Firefox, number 3, it has some sort of back-up system so you should never lose another bookmark again. It's still in the BETA stages though. Just follow the advice given and you'll have no problems.