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[Tom AZ]

Can anyone tell me the name and location of the Bookmark file in Firefox Portable 3.5.2? Thanks.

[Tunerz]

I think it is located in "Firefox Portable Folder\Data\profile\bookmarkbackups". Usually its "bookmarks-year-month-day.json"

[Tom AZ]

Appreciate the help, but I think these are backup copies -- not the active bookmark file itself.

[Icedrake]

It's in: FirefoxPortable\Data\Profile. It should be a file called bookmarks and it should be an HTML Document.

[Tunerz]

@Icedrake
I looked upon that file, and it's just the bookmarks you get when you first run Firefox Portable.

@Tom
You can always go to Bookmarks -> Organize Bookmarks -> Import and Backup -> Export HTML

[Tom AZ]

I finally figured out the actual active bookmark file in Firefox Portable . . . it's "places.sqlite"

[Andavari]

Tom AZ, on Aug 15 2009, 01:11 AM, said:

I finally figured out the actual active bookmark file in Firefox Portable . . . it's "places.sqlite"

I really wish they'd go back to the old way of saving the bookmark file, that after having to manually add in bookmarks after doing a clean install sometime ago and I realized my backup did nothing as it was showing a months old version of my bookmarks.

Just make sure it's making bookmark backups for you, or better yet install FEBE which you can configure to automatically make full profile backups.

[Tom AZ]

Good advice. I am using FEBE as I always have.

Also, it appears to create a bookmark backup everyday and puts them in the Bookmarkbackup folder. I wonder if there's a way to limit the number of backups it creates so you're keeping just the most recent 3 or 4 days?

[Andavari]

Tom AZ, on Aug 15 2009, 10:39 AM, said:

I wonder if there's a way to limit the number of backups it creates so you're keeping just the most recent 3 or 4 days?

It can create a set limit of user defined backups in 'FEBE Options->Directory' area, and if you have it automatically make a daily backup you could input 3 or 4 in that 'Directory' area which perhaps should translate into the number of days it would keep the backups before flushing them out for newer backups.