try foxmarks addon for firefox, It's so nice I bookmark everything practically.<br><br><a href="http://www.foxmarks.com/">http://www.foxmarks.com/</a><br><br><br clear="all">-Alex Goretoy<br><a href="http://www.alexgoretoy.com">http://www.alexgoretoy.com</a><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 10:56 PM, NoOp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:glgxg@sbcglobal.net">glgxg@sbcglobal.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On 02/07/2009 08:13 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:<br>
> On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, NoOp wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">>><br>
>> Create a new profile:<br>
>><br>
>> $ firefox -P<br>
>><br>
>> and with that profile add your bookmarks. Alternatively you can use<br>
>> Bookmarks|Organize Bookmarks and delete from there.<br>
>><br>
>> However, in answer to the delete bookmarks (and even the<br>
>> bookmarksbackups folder):<br>
>><br>
>> Rename:<br>
>><br>
>> 1. $HOME/,mozilla/firefox/vxuuxfit.default/bookmarkbackups to<br>
>> $HOME/,mozilla/firefox/vxuuxfit.default/x-bookmarkbackups-x<br>
>> 2. $HOME/,mozilla/firefox/vxuuxfit.default/bookmarks to<br>
>> $HOME/,mozilla/firefox/vxuuxfit.default/x-bookmarks-x<br>
>> 3. $HOME/,mozilla/firefox/vxuuxfit.default/places.sqlite to<br>
>> $HOME/,mozilla/firefox/vxuuxfit.default/x-places.sqlite-x<br>
>><br>
>> and restart Fx. You'll find that your bookmarks are now set at default<br>
>> and you can import your old bookmarks if necessary.<br>
><br>
> Forgot to mention that I tried deleting<br>
> $HOME/,mozilla/firefox/vxuuxfit.default/bookmarks, and places.sqlite.<br>
> This time in addition, at your suggestion, I deleted the individual<br>
> files from the bookmarkbackups directory. Opened Firefox and lo and<br>
> behold all the old bookmarks. Of course places.sqlite, a backup file and<br>
> a bookmark file were magically recreated. I can't figure out what is<br>
> writing the places.sqlite file. Any ideas?<br>
><br>
> Thanks.<br>
><br>
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</div> Please follow the directions I've provided.<br>
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