I mistakenly deleted all my Chrome bookmarks from my hard drive. I recently backed up the hard drive with Time Machine, though.
I've searched through Time Machine files, including Application Support and Cache folders, and cannot find any Chrome User Data or bookmark.html files, though.
Please help me locate my lost bookmarks!
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), iPad mini WiFi, 7.1, iPhone 7.1
Okay, I've made some progress. I found the Bookmarks and Bookmarks.bak files in the "Default" folder in ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/ when hooked up with Time Machine -- there are not any "Profile" folders in the Time Machine backups. Maybe Google changed the configuration of Chrome.
But the Bookmarks file is not an html file; it's written in this kind of code:
{
"checksum": "0292355746520f0e959c085ba2d8ed83",
"roots": {
"bookmark_bar": {
"children": [ {
"date_added": "13033558603967151",
"id": "16981",
"name": "Forecast",
"type": "url",
"url": "http://forecast.io/#/f/35.6009,-82.5540"
}, {
So, now my question is: How do I convert the Bookmarks file into an html file so I can import it into Chrome?
Thanks...
Whew! The trick seems to be: Be sure to quit Chrome, then put the new Bookmarks and Bookmarks.bak files in the Profile folder. And maybe reinstall the extensions.
Just sign in to your Google Chrome account and your bookmarks should download again. One feature of Chrome is that all your bookmarks are synced across all your computers that use Chrome.
Thanks so much for your reply.
I don't ever sign into Chrome when I use the browser (and don't have any desire to do so) so I doubt my bookmarks are accessible through my account.
My workaround now is to export my bookmarks as an html file at the same time I back up other import files.
hello. i have the same problem. i can locate the bookmark files in time machine but have no clue how to move them or replace them on my chrome browser. can anyone please help with step by step directions? thx!
You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is marked solved, less people are likely to look at it. You can link to this one.
Were you able to extract the Bookmarks.bak file from Time Machine? And were you able to get Chrome to pull in the bookmarks from that file?
Recover Chrome bookmarks with Time Machine?
