On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 15:20 -0600, Steven Stern wrote: > On 12/07/2010 03:12 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 09:39 -0500, Tom Horsey wrote: > >> On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:25:34 -0600 > >> Aaron Konstanz wrote: > >> > >>> What could have happened? > >> > >> Can't tell you what happened, but I can tell you the > >> bookmarks are stashed in the file: > >> > >> ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/places.sqlite > >> > >> Perhaps the sqlite file got clobbered or you > >> somehow changed default profiles? > > Well Ii found the file all right. I did not change profiles. The > > places.sqlite file does not contain anything that looks like my former > > bookmarks. Nor will Firefox display what is in the file as bookmarks. > > So now what? > > > > I guess I am a traditionalist and long for the good old days when the > > bookmarks were in a bookmarks.html file. Now there is a bookmarks.html > > file which represents evidently the bookmarks toolbar which seems more > > rational. > > > > > sqlite3 -list places.sqlite > sqlite> select * from moz_bookmarks; > sqlite> .quit > > (And that's why we make backups. :-) ) I appreciate the sqlite lesson, but does not answer the question where did the bookmarks go? -- ======================================================================= God made the integers; all else is the work of Man. -- Kronecker ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines