To hide a favourites folder in explorer , i simply used a cache hiding program .

All I did was highlight a favourites folder eg ..

c:/ documents and settings/N/ favourites/foldername

and when hidden by the cache hiding program it wouldn’t show in my explorer favourites list.

Can i do similar with my firefox bookmarks files?
eg highlight a folder similarlyy within the firefox file storage.

It was a simple answer.

Any info appreciated.

With regard to Ed Walters comment, whilst I believe if you ever feel the need to have the same bookmark in 2 different directories, you’re probably an ideal candidate for tagging instead, it would probably require re-sorting of all existing bookmarks and quite a major shift in thinking and practice. Additionally I don’t see why you still shouldn’t be able to bookmark the same page, with the same name, in two (or more) different directories as you like, after all, they’re your bookmarks

Myself, I am undecided as to whether this is good or not as I strongly believe in simple text files for data portability, it could suffer if you have large amounts of data, such as is easy with bookmarks.

I find my places.sqlite file in another directory but not with bookmarks.html. I have changed the default directory of my profile!

Have a nice day,

Wait until you try doing something simple like bookmarking the same site twice and saving it to two different folders.

Let’s say you have a “Why Mozilla Sucks” folder and a “Stupid Programmers” folder and you want to bookmark this page in both folders. All you used to have to do is click “Bookmark This Page”, save it to the first folder, then repeat that and save it to the second folder. So simple. So convenient.

Not anymore.

You can only save one copy of a bookmark using the “Bookmark This Page” command. If you try to save a second copy of the bookmark then it will only change the folder name of the bookmark. Only one copy of the bookmark will exist, in one folder.

In order to save a bookmark to two or more folders, you have to save it to the first folder, then go into “Organize Bookmarks” and copy it from folder to folder. This clumsy workaround is working now, but it’s only a matter of time before some developer decides that’s too easy for the end users and attempts to fix it.

Another problem I’m seeing all to often is that folder names are getting overwritten. Let’s say you have three folders, A, B, and C. Each folder has subfolders, 1, 2, and 3.

A – 1 2 3
B – 1 2 3
C – 1 2 3

Now let’s assume that you add a new folder to B called 4. The new folder is added, but when you look at your bookmarks again you find that folder C has been renamed to 4.

A – 1 2 3
B – 1 2 3 4
4 – 1 2 3

Ruh-Roh!

This is just stupid. It’s obvious that real reason that Mozilla put in a database engine to handle the bookmarks is because some nerd at Mozilla was either taking a SQL class or needed to add SQL to his resume.

This kind of idiocy explains why JWZ (google “JWZ Netscape” if you don’t know who he is) is running Macs with Safari instead of Linux and Firefox in the Internet kiosks at the DNA Lounge.

Recently my hard disk crashed and i had to recover Windows XP from the very beginning. One of the first things to install again was FF3.
Right now I tried to restore my valuable bunch of bookmarks and found out that the old bookmarks.html is no longer used to store bookmarks in FF.

Thanks to this article I knew which files I had to restore from my last backup. Then I opened bookmark manager and restored all my bookmarks from the latest .json-file in folder bookmarkbackups.
It worked perfectly, the are all back again!

Btw, I like new bookmark system very much, I like FF displaying matching bookmarks while I type web address. That’s very comfortable.
Now I will change my regular backup to include the complete FF profile directory.

Alex

The wizard wont do it, and no browsing option!
No problem I’ll just export the Chrome bookmarks and then manually patch together the two bookmark files, done it before with various browsers. Can’t find the Firefox file in my brand new version.
Google how to do it.
Oh hell!
Firefox must have used the same software developers microsoft used on Vista.