FUUUUUCCCCKKKK!! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
HUNDREDS of bookmarks!
Reference!
Sci-Fi!
Comics Strips!
WW2 Aircraft!
Bookstores online!
Pron.
All gone.
No explaination.
I’m…hurting.
Mommy.
All your bookmarks are belong to us.
Go to your local library.
Get some of those fliers for pilates and after-school cooking classes programs and local jug band celebrations. Preferably the ones in bright colors.
Cut them into 4 strips length-wise.
Plenty of new bookmarks!
You, ArchiveGuy, are a fucko, you know that monkeyboy?
Ouch, that totally fucking sucks.
Dunno about the OP, but given the pervasiveness of Google these days, I find it easier to trim my bookmarks to the two dozen sites I visit on a regular basis. Using Google to find anything else saves me the trouble of dealing with outdated bookmarks.
Ditto World Eater.
If you have your own webspace, here’s an idea for protecting your bookmarks in the future. Set up a new page, unconnected to the rest of your site. Make hyperlinks of all your bookmarks there, or hell even just leave them as regular text. Then, if anything ever happens to your computer, you have a backup. Yeah, I know it’s too little too late, but perhaps useful in the future.
Same here.
I have about two dozen bookmarks, at most, and use google for whatever else I might need as I hate trying to navigate 53 folders, 184 subfolders, and 2,738 different links trying to find something when just typing in a description into google works so much faster.
Between Google and auto-completing urls I hardly ever use the bookmarks that I have.
Personally, for the seven or so sites I visit that frequently, Auto-Complete is sufficient.
If you’re using IE, you can make a backup copy of your Favorites, so if you manage to clobber them, you can recover. File, Import and Export, Export Favorites. Stick them in a file somewhere obvious, like under My Documents.
I realize that this is old fashioned, but did you perchance do a backup of your hard drive at some point in the last couple of years?
I lost all my links following a severe crash 3 months ago, but got most of them back quickly from my twice a year backup.
If you don’t back up, maybe your mommy does, and she could help you?
And you’re sure they’re gone?
Firefox allows a quick exportation of bookmarks into an HTML file, which I’m sure you already know. I try to make a backup every couple of months. If I remember, I shoot it up to my website, not publicly linked, and there they are.
I am embarssed to admit that I don’t know how to save my Bookmarks files to a disk.
You have fallen afoul of the Evil One. You must purge all of his signs. Look for His sign, it looks something like a colorful flag, breaking up into colorful squares. You must sprinkle Holy Water on all His symbols to break the spell. You can make Holy Water by drinking about a quart of the Nectar of the Godly, or any really cheap, nasty tequila. (If these instructions seem obscure, they will become clear after you drink the Nectar…) It isn’t strictly necessary to dance about naked with an Incarnation of the Goddess, but why take chances?
You are now cured, and healed. Shits still gone, but who cares?
I use Netscape.
Damn, Bosda, you too? I just lost all mine Saturday. I had the space heater running when the MIL switched on the sukiyaki pot and ‘poof’. No lights. When I got everything up and running again, my bookmark folder had disappeared.
bummer
It’s been a long time since I used Netscape’s Navigator but in Firefox and Mozilla you can save your bookmarks by clicking on Manage Bookmarks, File, Export and save them wherever you want and Import them back as needed.
I do know older versions of Navigator had a Save As feature.
It’s been awhile since I switched from Netscape to Firefox, but I do believe I’ve experienced your evil fate at least once.
Most likely Netscape just forgot where your bookmark file is. Do a search of your C drive for a file named “bookmark.htm” (or is it “bookmarks.htm” ?)
Once you now where it is (or have moved it to a known location) the Manage Bookmarks tools will let you set the bookmark file to that file, or import them into whatever it thinks the current bookmark file is.
I think I’ll backup my bookmarks file now …