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When I upgraded to Firefox 9.0.1 all of my bookmarks were lost, how do I recover my bookmarks?

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RagingWolf
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I had stores, school info.; miscellaneous things, dictionary.com, Google.com, and emails.

I had stores, school info.; miscellaneous things, dictionary.com, Google.com, and emails.

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cor-el
cor-el
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A possible cause is a problem with the file places.sqlite that stores the bookmarks and the history.

vardak
vardak
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This turned out to be the root cause for my problem. Simply renamed the places.sqlite.corrupt file to places.sqlite and my profile (including bookmarks) worked again. Thanks!

By the way, I first noticed that something was wrong with my _profile_ when, in addition to lost bookmarks, I noticed that I couldn't create _new_ bookmarks. Also was not able to restore bookmarks from a backup .json file. So I created a new profile, and was able to restore the bookmarks from the original profile's backup. That led me to exploring your suggestion. Thanks again!