# Google Chrome browser reverts to old bookmarks every time it starts and it deletes all new ones **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 29, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-browser-reverts-to-old-bookmarks-every-time-it-starts-and-it-deletes-all-new-ones/636238 "2012-09-29T16:32:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-browser-reverts-to-old-bookmarks-every-time-it-starts-and-it-deletes-all-new-ones/636238/1 "2012-09-29T16:32:03Z")
I first installed Chrome about a year and a half ago. I put in a few bookmarks at first. I have kept adding more bookmarks as I went along, and now have hundreds. The problem is that Chrome never saves them. Every time I restart Chrome, it loads only the original set of bookmarks I first added a year and a half ago. Any bookmarks I’ve added since then are lost as it always reverts back to the original set I put in shortly after I first installed it. This has forced me to export my current bookmarks to a separate HTML file on my desktop or they’ll get lost. Every time I add a new bookmark, if I want to have it again the next time I start Chrome, I have to export the whole file again. Every time I start Chrome, to get the current set of bookmarks, I have to import them from the file on my desktop. Before I can do that, I first have to delete the old set (otherwise it would get too messy with two sets piled on top of each other and nesting in ways I don’t want). I tried exporting all the bookmarks to Firefox and then re-importing them from Firefox to Chrome, but that didn’t help. Does anyone know why this happens? Or how to fix the problem? I want to find if there’s a fix before I just nuke the whole thing in exasperation. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-browser-reverts-to-old-bookmarks-every-time-it-starts-and-it-deletes-all-new-ones/636238/2 "2012-09-29T17:56:32Z")
Are you using it in Incognito mode or something, or do all your user preferences appear normal? ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-chrome-browser-reverts-to-old-bookmarks-every-time-it-starts-and-it-deletes-all-new-ones/636238/3 "2012-09-30T00:19:02Z")
I’ve never used incognito mode. I don’t even know how to activate it. What defines normal user preferences? Not sure what you mean.