Re: Bookmark Recovery

[JohnW-Mpls]

On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 19:40:49 +0800, Philip Chee 
wrote:

>On 14/11/2013 23:15, Jens Hatlak 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.


>> 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 Help is outdated in many ways, including 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).
>
>And if you want to help contribute to SeaMonkey but aren't a programmer,
>you could help us by adding or updating our help files.
>
>Phil

Boy, there's a challenge!  Tempting: I'm experienced in interfacing between
people and tech - but I have never thought about Help files.   Where would a
person even start thinking about it?  What overall mental posture is needed?

My goodness, I'm one of those that never looks at the Table Of Contents in
the front of the book but go right to the Index in the back!!!

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Re: Bookmark Recovery

[JohnW-Mpls]

On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 09:44:29 -0800, Upscope  wrote:

>On Thursday, November 14, 2013 02:50:34 PM JohnW-Mpls wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 16:15:00 +0100, Jens Hatlak  wrote:
>> >JohnW-Mpls wrote:
>> >> Win XP & SM 2.20

>> 
>> 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}
>> 
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>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

My bookmarkbackups directory in my proflie has about 10 files and all are
filled with characters -  each about 460KB in size.

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Re: Bookmark Recovery

[Upscope]

On Thursday, November 14, 2013 02:50:34 PM JohnW-Mpls wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 16:15:00 +0100, Jens Hatlak  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}
> 
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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

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Re: Bookmark Recovery

[Ant]

On 11/14/2013 12:50 PM PT, JohnW-Mpls typed:


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.


Ditto. I didn't know that existed. I assume this is bookmarks only and 
not histories and other data. I usually manually backup my 20 MB 
places.sqlite files often/frequently since they are portable. They even 
work in Firefoxes on other OSes so they are cross platform and browser 
compatible! :O

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Re: Bookmark Recovery

[Philip Chee]

On 14/11/2013 23:15, Jens Hatlak 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.
> 
>> 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).

And if you want to help contribute to SeaMonkey but aren't a programmer,
you could help us by adding or updating our help files.

Phil

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Re: Bookmark Recovery

[JohnW-Mpls]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 16:15:00 +0100, Jens Hatlak  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}

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Re: Bookmark Recovery

[EE]

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.  I got operational by going outside SeaMonkey and
restoring my profile from an old copy.

The "bookmarkbackups" subdirectory implies that there is a SeaMonkey way to
restore bookmarks.  But how?   And where in Help?


Try restoring a bookmark backup.  You access those from the Tools menu 
for the bookmark manager.


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Re: Bookmark Recovery

[Jens Hatlak]

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.



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).


HTH

Jens

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Bookmark Recovery

[JohnW-Mpls]

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.  I got operational by going outside SeaMonkey and
restoring my profile from an old copy.

The "bookmarkbackups" subdirectory implies that there is a SeaMonkey way to
restore bookmarks.  But how?   And where in Help?


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