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Q: All my recent bookmarks are gone!

Suddenly after 2 days with Mountain Lion all my bookmarks returned to where they where 1 year ago. Meaning that all my recent bookmarks now are gone. Is that something you've encountered before?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Aug 16, 2012 2:58 PM

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Q: All my recent bookmarks are gone!

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  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Aug 16, 2012 3:58 PM in response to markmikaelmuller
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    Aug 16, 2012 3:58 PM in response to markmikaelmuller

    Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:

     

    ☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

     

    ☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

     

    ☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the page that opens.

     

    Drag or copy — do not type — the following line into the Terminal window, then press return:

     

    ls -OTel Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist

     

    Post any lines of output that appear below what you entered — the text, please, not a screenshot. Anonymize your user name, if you wish.

  • by markmikaelmuller,

    markmikaelmuller markmikaelmuller Aug 16, 2012 4:10 PM in response to Linc Davis
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    Aug 16, 2012 4:10 PM in response to Linc Davis

    -rw-r--r--  1 Possible  staff  - 386284 17 Aug 00:24:47 2012 Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist

     

    Does that help? Thanks for taking time out for me!

  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Aug 16, 2012 4:19 PM in response to markmikaelmuller
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    Aug 16, 2012 4:19 PM in response to markmikaelmuller

    That's the file Safari bookmarks are stored in, and it was last modified today, not a year ago. Possibly the file is corrupt. You could try restoring it from a backup that predates the issue.

  • by markmikaelmuller,

    markmikaelmuller markmikaelmuller Aug 16, 2012 4:30 PM in response to Linc Davis
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    Aug 16, 2012 4:30 PM in response to Linc Davis

    OK, very strange.  Earlier today I opened the Notepad for the first time after I instralled Mountain Lion a couple of days ago. It asked if it should merge with iCloud which I accepted. After that all my notes from before 2012 dissapeared. And now all my bookmarks from 2012 and forward vanished after midnight. Isn't that a bit strange?

     

    I haven't done any backup for at least 6-7 months, I'm afraid.

  • by Linc Davis,Helpful

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Aug 16, 2012 4:42 PM in response to markmikaelmuller
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    Aug 16, 2012 4:42 PM in response to markmikaelmuller

    iCloud may have synchronized your bookmark file with an older copy on another device.

     

    If you don't back up your data, you will inevitably lose all of it.

  • by markmikaelmuller,

    markmikaelmuller markmikaelmuller Aug 16, 2012 4:47 PM in response to Linc Davis
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    Aug 16, 2012 4:47 PM in response to Linc Davis

    God dammit, I knew it.

     

    I hoped to be able to retreive an automatic back up file from somewhere - but no. Goodbye data.

     

    Thanks a lot for your help.

     

    All the best, Mark

  • by markmikaelmuller,

    markmikaelmuller markmikaelmuller Aug 16, 2012 4:54 PM in response to markmikaelmuller
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    Aug 16, 2012 4:54 PM in response to markmikaelmuller

    By the way - isn't possible to desynchonize an action i iCloud?

  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Aug 16, 2012 5:06 PM in response to markmikaelmuller
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    Aug 16, 2012 5:06 PM in response to markmikaelmuller

    No.