How to Import Firefox Bookmarks from Carbonite Backup for Windows

Authored by: Support.com Tech Pro Team

1. Introduction

In this guide, you will learn how to Import Firefox Bookmarks from Carbonite Backup 

2. Importing Firefox Bookmarks

Carbonite can restore your Firefox bookmarks back to your computer and then you can import them back into the program

Please choose the scenario that best fits your situation

This process will delete any of the bookmarks that are currently saved in Firefox on your computer. 

3. How to Restore your Firefox Bookmarks

Follow the steps below to Restore Bookmarks

1. After you have put Carbonite into Recover Mode, you can start the process of restoring your files. To restore your files, you will need to open the Carbonite Backup Drive through the File Explorer window (alternatively called Windows Explorer in older Windows operating systems)

2. Double-click the Carbonite Backup Drive icon

You will see the Carbonite Backup Drive window displayed. This is a representation of all of the files in your backup (A set of copies of your files on our servers) organized the same way they are on your computer

3. Double-click the Backed Up Files icon

4. Navigate to the appropriate location for the bookmarkbackups folder

Windows Vista and Newer

• C:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xx1234xx.default\bookmarkbackups

Windows XP

• C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xx1234xx.default\bookmarkbackups 

[User Name] is your Windows login name, and xx1234xx.default is the profile name automatically generated by Mozilla Firefox 

5. In this folder, you should see files named in this format: bookmarks-yyyy-mm-dd.json. The format refers to a date. For example, bookmarks-2018-12-30.json is the backup file of your bookmarks that you had on December 30, 2018

1. Identify the most recent date that would have had all of your bookmarks. Typically, this is the date before you lost your computer
   
   
2. Right-click that file and select Restore To...
   
   
3. In the window that appears, select Desktop and click OK. This will restore your Firefox bookmarks file to the desktop and may take a few minutes
   
   
4. Proceed to the next section

4. How to Import your Firefox Bookmarks

Follow the steps below to Import Firefox Bookmarks

1. Open Firefox 

2. Open the Bookmarks Library window. With the Firefox window selected, press the Ctrl + Shift + B keys at the same time. A window titled Library should appear

3. At the top of Bookmarks Library, select Import and Backup

4. From the Import and Backup drop-down menu, select Restore, then Choose File

5. In the window that appears, browse to your Desktop, and select the restored bookmarks-yyyy-mm-dd.json file

6. Click Open and a pop-up will warn you that your current bookmarks will be replaced

7. Select OK to continue. Your current bookmarks are now replaced with your restored Firefox bookmarks

8. You can now use the Bookmarks Manager to organize your favorites

Once you have completely restored all of your data and successfully imported it into the program, please exit Recover Mode to resume normal backup operations