Adam Bailey wrote:
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> Leonidas Jones wrote:
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>> Adam Bailey wrote:
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>>> I'm running mozilla 1.4, and it won't save my bookmarks. I can
>>> bookmark pages, and they will be there until I close mozilla. When I
>>> open it again, they are gone. This goes for deleting bookmarks as
>>> well. They stay deleted through one session, then appear again. I
>>> had this problem also in 1.3 and upgraded to 1.4, hoping that would
>>> fix the problem, but it didn't. The problem started after I
>>> re-formatted my HD, and imported my old bookmarks (I used netscape
>>> 6.2 before the re-format) into a fresh install of 1.3.
>>> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Adam
>>>
>>
>> First of all, try creating a new profile, and place some bookmarks in
>> it. Do you notice the problem?
>>
>> If that goes well, copy bookmarks.html from the old profile into the
>> new one, overwriting what's there. OPen the new profile, do you
>> notice the problem?
>>
>> This tells us whether the problem is in the profile or the program,
>> and whether the bookmarks.html file has a problem.
>>
>> Since you originally created this profile in 6.2, there is certainly a
>> chance that the profile itself is corrupted.
>>
>> Let us know how these two tests turn out.
>>
>> Lee
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> Looks like it was a problem with the proflie. I created a new profile,
> saved a few bookmarks to test it, then imported my old bookmarks and
> restarted mozilla a couple times. Seems to be working fine.
>
> Thanks for the help,
> Adam
>
Great, glad its working better. If you need to import information from
the old prfile to the new, take a look at mozilla.org's profile help page:
http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.0/faq/profile.html
Most particularlt:
http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.0/faq...le.html#rescue
to save data from a corrupted profile.
Lee
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