On Thursday, November 14, 2013 02:50:34 PM JohnW-Mpls wrote: > On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 16:15:00 +0100, Jens Hatlak <[email protected]> wrote: > >JohnW-Mpls wrote: > >> Win XP & SM 2.20 > >> > >> I have lots of bookmarks and yesterday I deleted a major directory > >> by > >> mistake and was not able recover it within SeaMonkey. I looked in > >> Help but did not learn what to do. > >> > >> The "bookmarkbackups" subdirectory implies that there is a > >> SeaMonkey way to restore bookmarks. But how? > > > >Open the Bookmarks Manager (Ctrl+B) and open the Restore menu below > >the Tools menu. > > > >The entries listed there equal the JSON files located in the > >bookmarkbackups directory inside the SM profile directory. > > Boy, just what I wanted - yesterday! But thanks, I now know how for > the next time. > > >> And where in Help? > > > >I fear that's not in Help. Help is outdated in many ways, including > >almost all changes related to Places (today's back-end for history > >and bookmarks). > > I thought that was the case. I seldom like Help files anyways. > > > However, this episode caused me to be unhappy with all the > inappropriate files in my profile directory - so I launched into > creating a new clean profile with just the good stuff in it. > Basically blowing a couple days for naught! I just spent over hour > setting my new preferences to match the old ones. {grin} > > -- > JohnW-MN > _______________________________________________ > support-seamonkey mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey I just looked at the contents of BookMarksBackup. The files inside it show 0B content and are empty. The sane file saved to my external disk is shown as a text file and contains all the book marks. Is this normal?
I tried both as owner and root(Admin in MS terms). Thanks for any comments. Russ -- openSUSE 12.3(3.12.0-1.ge8fa6b4-desktop)|KDE 4.11.3 |Intel core2duo 2.5 MHZ,|8GB DDR3|GeForce 8400GS (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-331.20) _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
