mozilla fire fox help help help!!

[captain srini]

hi guys
please help i am going bonkers! i had a lot of bookmarks in my fire fox now i dont know why but i went and down loaded the latest version and i have lost all my book marks and on top of it i dont know which was my earlier version and i cant live without these book marks
please help as to how i could retrieve the book marks
thanks a ton
captain srini

[007]

hi guys
please help i am going bonkers! i had a lot of bookmarks in my fire fox now i dont know why but i went and down loaded the latest version and i have lost all my book marks and on top of it i dont know which was my earlier version and i cant live without these book marks
please help as to how i could retrieve the book marks
thanks a ton
captain srini

Firefox and Mozilla Suite store your bookmarks in the file "bookmarks.html" located in the profile folder. There is also a file called "bookmarks.html" in the program folder, but this one is a template, and does not hold your bookmarks. You can use your operating system’s file and folder search feature to locate your stored bookmarks. To find all bookmarks files anywhere on your computer, search for bookmarks* (be sure to include the asterisk, with no space). Windows 2000 and Windows XP users: Read the information here, as the profile folder containing your stored bookmarks is hidden by default.
You can open the bookmarks.html file or any bookmark backup file using "File -> Open File" from the Firefox or Mozilla Suite menu to review the contents (see this article for details).

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In cases where the bookmarks file itself is damaged or its contents have been deleted, your bookmarks must be recovered, usually by restoring a backup. This may happen after an abnormal operating system shutdown after a system crash or power loss, especially on Windows systems. Some or all of the content of the bookmarks file may have been deleted for other reasons. You may have accidentally deleted some of your bookmarks when you organized them in the Bookmarks Manager, or you may have inadvertently replaced your saved bookmarks with the default set by using the Firefox "Reset bookmarks to Firefox defaults" Safe Mode option.
If you have a recent bookmarks backup, you can replace a damaged bookmarks file or you can recover the missing content by importing the backup. In Firefox 1.5 and above, five daily bookmark backup files are saved in the bookmarkbackups folder, located in the Firefox profile folder. Important: You must recover one of these five backups before they are overwritten by newer versions.
You can replace the bookmarks.html file in the profile folder,with a backup copy, for example, with one of the Firefox "bookmarks-(date).html" backups renamed to "bookmarks.html". This will replace the current contents of the bookmarks file with the bookmarks contained in the backup file and is recommended for advanced users. You can also use the import bookmarks feature of the Bookmarks Manager to add the contents of any bookmark backup to your current bookmarks, as follows:

1. • Firefox: "Bookmarks -> Organize (or Manage) Bookmarks... -> File -> Import... -> from File"
   • Mozilla Suite: "Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks... -> Tools -> Import..."
2. When the file picker appears, navigate to the folder that contains the bookmarks file you wish to use and select that file. Windows 2000 and XP users can navigate to the bookmarks backup folder typing "%APPDATA%" in the file field and pressing Enter, going into Mozilla then Firefox, then Profiles, then xxxxxxxx.default (where xxxxxxx is any sequence of numbers and characters), then the bookmarkbackups folder.

The bookmarks contained in the backup should now be available.

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• Check the Recycle Bin/Trash for a file called "bookmarks.html".
• (Windows) Run the error-checking tool Chkdsk (Windows 2000, XP) or ScanDisk (Windows 95, 98, ME) to see if you can recover any file fragments that contain your lost bookmarks. Look for files with names like FILE0001.chk or FILE0002.chk on the root directory (the files may be inside folders named FOUND.000 or similar). Open each file in Wordpad or Notepad and, if it contains bookmark data, rename it with an .html extension (for example, rename FILE0001.chk to bookmarks1.html). Finally, import the file using the Mozilla Suite or Firefox Bookmarks Manager.
• Use a file undelete utility to see if you can recover the file