[SPS-1]

I accidentally deleted a folder of Bookmarks.

I am running Windows 7. I tried doing a Restore, but it didn't get my bookmarks back.

In C:\Users\Me\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default there is file Bookmarks, and a backup file Bookmarks.bak
I tried renaming the backup to Bookmarks, and am semi-successful at getting the lost bookmarks back. The lost bookmarks are back, for a moment, but seems as soon as I touch any of the bookmarks icons, the ones that were previously deleted get deleted again, and the Bookmarks file decreases in size, indicating I just lost those bookmarks again. Did that several times, rebooted in between, etc etc.

Not sure what is going on. Anybody understand how I can get by bookmarks back ?

 

[Nealtw]

I accidentally deleted a folder of Bookmarks.

I am running Windows 7. I tried doing a Restore, but it didn't get my bookmarks back.

In C:\Users\Me\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default there is file Bookmarks, and a backup file Bookmarks.bak
I tried renaming the backup to Bookmarks, and am semi-successful at getting the lost bookmarks back. The lost bookmarks are back, for a moment, but seems as soon as I touch any of the bookmarks icons, the ones that were previously deleted get deleted again, and the Bookmarks file decreases in size, indicating I just lost those bookmarks again. Did that several times, rebooted in between, etc etc.

Not sure what is going on. Anybody understand how I can get by bookmarks back ?

Are they in the trash can, I have reinstalled from their.

 

[SPS-1]

OK. I think I got it back.

My desktop computer was syncing with my android phone (even though I had the phone shut down ???) so I went into chrome settings and turned off syncing of bookmarks. So next time I renamed Bookmarks.bak to Bookmarks it did not revert back to the smaller file.

Lets hope I still have all my bookmarks in the morning.

 

[surferdude2]

I don't use syncing so my Chrome bookmarks are at the default location on my drive:

C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Favorites


You should try that path to see what's there. I wouldn't think that location would get abandoned regardless of what else one decided to sync with.

Other than that, you can replace them with a copy plucked from a recent image backup file. You do make frequent drive image backups don't you? I recommend EASEUS TODO freeware to make situations like this easy to recover from.

EASEUS TODO free disk imaging program

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[SPS-1]

I don't use syncing so my Chrome bookmarks are at the default location on my drive:

C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Favorites

That path would be your Internet Explorer favorites. You can import them to Chrome, but then Chrome makes its own file. And if you change the Chrome bookmarks, it does not update the IE favorites. The Chrome favorites is a single file, while the IE favorites is a simple folder of web sites.

In fact, Chrome bookmarks that I lost were very close or exactly the same as what I had in IE favorites, so I could have recreated them without too much trouble. Just that I could not figure out why every time I fixed the Bookmarks file, it changed back.

 

[surferdude2]

Well, I thought it was worth a shot for you but it sounds like you had it covered already.

Mine are surely out of date since I haven't used bookmarks since I started using this Spartan clipboard. It a lot more versatile and user friendly with that chore and lots of other things. I can even run it from a flash drive which makes it nice when working on someone else's computer to have all of my own clipboard and bookmarks available.

Spartan clipboard

Good luck with your recovery,

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[surferdude2]

In C:\Users\Me\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default there is file Bookmarks, and a backup file Bookmarks.bak

I just did a search with Agent Ransack using the path you gave and got no hits on it. I either don't have that file or it's somewhere else on my drive.

I'll check with different terms and see if it's on here somewhere else.

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[surferdude2]

Looks like I do have that file but in a slightly different location than you gave. It doesn't have an extension and it's in script so not very friendly for viewing.

 

[SPS-1]

You could actually open it with Notepad and edit it, but I doubt anybody would want to.

 

[surferdude2]

Or you can convert it to an .html file and it's more sociable.

Chrome Bookmarks to html

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