On 10/23/2022 11:23 PM,
hardy@homerun.net wrote:
On Sun, 23 Oct 2022 20:54:35 -0500, hardy@homerun.net wrote:
Searched the Web. Can't find the answer.
Found them.
C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Mypal\Profiles\v4xcmr38.default\bookmarkbackups
The answer to this, depends to some extent on what you
plan to do with the information.
Bookmarkbackups contains things like jsonlz4 representations.
These are mostly readable in a text editor like Notepad.
But, the information is not ready for human consumption,
and would require certain tools to help format the info
and make it 100% readable and correct. lz4 is a "nuisance
compressor", which provides relatively poor compression
properties, and serves no useful purpose. It's intent seems
to be the obfuscation of the info in the file, more than
anything else.
Most browsers in this browser family, support "Export Bookmarks"
and "Import Bookmarks" items. Sometimes, one of those is
easier to find than the other.
Export Bookmarks is in HTML format, and ready to Import
into another browser that supports the importation as HTML.
That's the portable format for bookmarks files.
But, you must be *careful*, as the importation policy
can be "Replace", rather than the more desirable "Merge".
You may have to sum two HTML files together, then Import,
so that nothing is lost, and the original list plus the
new list are in there together.
The binary looking stuff in the file, is a small icon that
sits to the left of each item in the menu. The rest of it
should look like text.
If you do something like this (while browser is shut down):
sqlite3.exe places.sqlite .dump > places_dump.txt
that will also have bookmark information in it. Since,
on occasion, the browser family seems to *lose* bookmarks
entirely, my expectation is that the damage happened
in places.sqlite, and the bookmarkbackups is how you would
restore the bookmarks. There should be some kind of menu
item, to import a backup jsonlz4 file and use that
as the one and only bookmark list.
My places.sqlite lost a bunch of stuff recently, on Seamonkey browser.
As an example of the bad dining habits of sqlite databases.
Databases don't really like to be started up and shut down
every five seconds, and yet some of the Mozilla software
is doing that sort of thing. This places a premium on
*error free* DIMMs on the motherboard. Shitty DIMMS do not help
in this regard. It could also be undiscovered software bugs
in the application of sqlite.dll causing this issue.
Sqlite puts up with a lot of abuse, as it's used by millions
of people every day, and the software calling it, is none
too kind to it.
Paul
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