[ale] lost in the home directory

Calvin Harrigan charriglists at bellsouth.net
Tue Sep 1 16:26:44 EDT 2009


drifter wrote:

> I need to copy to another machine my Mozilla bookmarks file.  And I can't 
> find it!
> 
> I had thought it would be in /home/.mozilla/firefox/i245ls3e.default  . . . 
> but the bookmark file there is only the initial one provided at startup, not 
> the much larger one that I use every day.
> 
> digging one level deeper there is a directory /bookmarkbackups that appears 
> to contain a daily backup over the past week.  But these are .json files and 
> I can not figure out how to convert them back into html that another browser 
> can import.
> 
> hints would be appreciated.
> 
> Sean

Wouldn't it be easier to go to bookmark manager and export the 
bookmarks?  Am I missing something?


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