Mozilla and Bookmarks

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paulados · #1 Post by **paulados** » 2006-03-07 16:02

Hello everybody,
I have a problem I don't know how to solve, and it's this. I'm using mozilla 1.7.2. under knoppix 3.6, and the problem I have is that when I try to save the bookmarks as an HTML file nothing
happens.
I do the next steps:
1) Bookmarks - Manage Bookmarks on mozilla
2) Tools - Export on Bookmarks Manager
3) I select the fiile and save

But when I look for the file, there's no file. Nothing has been saved. I would like to get the bookmarks, as I have a lot of them.
If there's no way to get the in html format, it doesn't mind my, but I would like to have them. If anyone knows the system file that has this information and how to extract it, I'll do it, but I want to have a copy of this bookmarks.

Thanks in advance,
Paulados.

domecq · #2 Post by **domecq** » 2006-03-07 16:58

This shouldn't be this hard since mozilla is supposed to prompt you to save a file that it already names by default as bookmarks.html in your home directory which is also chosen by default.

Did you check what you have in your "/home/(user)" directory?

paulados · #3 Post by **paulados** » 2006-03-07 18:16

Yes, of course that I have seen my home, and the file bookmarks.html isn't there, If look it up on all the hardDisk, and I haven't found it. Mozilla doesn't create the file bookmarks.html and I don't know why, perhaps I didn't explain it correctly, but that's exactly the problem.

Paulados.

Demetrius · #4 Post by **Demetrius** » 2006-03-07 18:31

You should be able to just copy your bookmarks.html file directly from the .mozilla folder in your home directory. In Firefox the file is located at ~/.mozilla/firefox/userprofilenumber/bookmarks.html. For the Mozilla Suite it would most likely be in ~/.mozilla/mozilla/userprofilenumber/bookmarks.html.

I haven't used the full Mozilla Suite in quite some time (been using Firefox since somewhere around version 0.6), but the suite should work the same as the standalone browser, I would assume.

domecq · #5 Post by **domecq** » 2006-03-07 19:21

Yes, of course that I have seen my home, and the file bookmarks.html isn't there, If look it up on all the hardDisk, and I haven't found it. Mozilla doesn't create the file bookmarks.html and I don't know why, perhaps I didn't explain it correctly, but that's exactly the problem.

When you are prompted to save your bookmarks file, what's the directory shown in the dialog window prompted to you by mozilla?