[Novices] Broken Firefox

[Brock Inglehart]

On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 22:47 -0400, Bruce Smith wrote:
> > > The old bookmarks are in (starting with your home directory):
> > > .mozilla/firefox-save/<some-directory-name>/bookmarks.html
> > 
> > I found that file.  The random name was first before default but it is
> > the right one because when I opened it one of its files was "bookmarks
> > html"  The folder/file I found is the old one because I opened it and it
> > showed all my old bookmarks.
> > 
> > > And they  should be copied to:
> > > .mozilla/firefox/<some-other-directory-name>/bookmarks.html
> > 
> > Now I'm confused.  Where would I find this new copy of the folders I
> > just took the file from? 
> 
> We renamed your old/bad firefox directory so firefox couldn't find it,
> effectively starting you fresh with firefox.  (firefox recreates the
> directory if it can't find it with all the default settings)
> 
> You need to copy the "bookmarks.html" file from the old/saved/bad
> directory into the new directory firefox created.
> 
> So, stop firefox and copy the file:
> 
> .mozilla/firefox-save/<some-directory-name>/bookmarks.html
> 
> to: 
> 
> .mozilla/firefox/<some-directory-name>/bookmarks.html
> 
> Then start firefox.
> 
Actually did something different.  After looking at the list of
bookmarks, I realized I didn't want about 1/2 of them.  So I used 2
desktops to make it simple, right clicked on the line item I wanted,
went to the other desktop and pasted in the address line of the browser
and if I opened and still wanted the address, I bookmarked it.  Made me
do a little housecleaning.  The long way I suppose but got a benefit
from it. 
Thanks for the help.  It did show me where the file was and I would have
never found it.
Brock
> 
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