[ale] lost in the home directory

[Chuck Payne]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Adric Net<adric at adric.net> wrote:
> Hi drifter,
>
> If this is a recent Mozilla, say Firefox 3 or newer, then AFAIK the
> bookmarks, history, stored usernames, and whatnot are all in sqlite3
> files, like so:
> lorelei-lee-long:llysnb8k.default adric$ ls *.sqlite
> content-prefs.sqlite    permissions.sqlite      urlclassifier.sqlite
> cookies.sqlite          places.sqlite           urlclassifier2.sqlite
> downloads.sqlite        search.sqlite           webappsstore.sqlite
> formhistory.sqlite      signons.sqlite
>
> I do also have some bookmark files, which may be quite old, as well as
> the backup files.
>
> lorelei-lee-long:llysnb8k.default adric$ ls bookmark*
> bookmarks-1.html                bookmarks.html
> bookmarks-2.html                bookmarks.postplaces.html
> bookmarks.bak                   bookmarks.preplaces.html
>
> bookmarkbackups:
> bookmarks-2009-08-27.json       bookmarks-2009-08-31.json
> bookmarks-2009-08-28.json       bookmarks-2009-09-01.json
> bookmarks-2009-08-29.json
>
> JSON is a JavaScript XML(?) object format, kind of like Java serialize
> or python pickle(). You should be able to dig up some libraries in
> your favorite language to muck about with.
>
> Ref: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/The_Places_database
>
> hth,
> adric
>
> On Sep 1, 2009, at 4:21 PM, 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
>>
>>
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> Adric Net
> adric at adric.net
>
>
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Drifter, I agree with Calvin. I use Xmarks which works with any
Firefox ( Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows), which is nice because I
always can access them no matter where I am.

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