[ale] lost in the home directory

[Richard Bronosky]

Mozilla has built user data syncing into Firefox. Google for "Mozilla
Weave". I use it and love it.

On 9/1/09, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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