WTF?!

[maharetr]

OK, so I was closing things down, (had closed the internets), and still had my word.doc open, when the screen flashed blue with white text: some kind of error message and then restarted on me. I blinked, and was alarmed for the word doc but it was still there in the lovely lovely restore function thing, and was fine.

I do a general open internets, check to see if things are OK -- and find that my homepage has reset back to the firefox thing (as opposed to my flist and yahoo email tabs), and that all my bookmarks are gone. All of them. I had a filing system for those frakkers. Weirdly, or maybe not so weirdly, my history is fine and I'm still logged in to LJ. A Windows box jumped up saying "your computer has just recovered from a serious error, would you like to report it?" etc but I was too worried about my word doc to do anything but close it down, and I didn't have time to see the content of the original error message.

Any ideas? Are my bookmarks gone forever into the megawebthing's ether?

ETA: when I hit "post message" I got a box that said I was about to send data over an unencrypted connection etc. I was pretty sure juffles put some form of encryption on it when he returned me to internetsness. *glares at laptop*

Comments

[laney-1974.livejournal.com]

Something similar to that happened to me on my old computer. All my bookmarks were lost. I have no idea why it happened or what I did wrong. It did, I hate to say, happen a second time as well.

Which is why it's a good thing I have all my favourite websites memorized.

[hithluin.livejournal.com]

Had that happen to me once or twice too =( No way to recover unfortunately. Advise you to go to manage bookmarks and "export" your bookmarks once you've restored most of them again.

[maharetr.livejournal.com]

Oh, excellent. I, clearly, didn't know you could do that. Thanks!

[buoy-wonder.livejournal.com]

Yeah I've had a similar problem as well. Can't remember what causes it and what solves it (hey, I'm pre-caffine) but try this:

Load up My Computer. Right click on your hard drive. Select properties. Select Error Check/Disk Scan. Run that.

Last time I had a similar error it fixed by doing that.

[maharetr.livejournal.com]

*makes notes* Cheers!

Also, could I heckle you about making my laptop able to read DVD discs? I now actually have a said disc, so it's become a "hey, here is osmething I lack" kinda thing ;)

[buoy-wonder.livejournal.com]

......

I didn't realise you had a DVD drive.

*nods*

I'm already looking for my DVD bundle of drivers and players so I will pass it onto you when I find it.

[juffles.livejournal.com]

Have a look under

C:\Documents and Settings\<YourUserName>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\

There should be a file called bookmarks.html or something similar. If they're anywhere, they'll probably be in there.

when I hit "post message" I got a box that said I was about to send data over an unencrypted connection etc. I was pretty sure juffles put some form of encryption on it when he returned me to internetsness.

I did (I think), but that only covers the bit from your laptop to the access point (router). The rest of the connection is technically unsecured, that message is the standard warning whenever you submit form data to a web page that isn't using Secure HTTP. (https://...)

[juffles.livejournal.com]

Other thoughts:

Sounds like when your pootie crashed FF corrupted your profile. It may be possible to recover some/all of your settings if you're willing to go digging around in that Profiles directory, but not making any guarantees. :)

[maharetr.livejournal.com]

Oh, Juffles! You da man, man! They're all there. Now, is there a way of exporting them with One Simple Click(tm) or is it a matter of re-bokmarking each link?

*happy!*

[juffles.livejournal.com]

Err...no idea. The more interesting question to my mind is, if they're still there why aren't they being used?

Is there an import bookmarks function in your Firefox? I've got v1.0.2 at work, and there's one under Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks, then File -> Import... -> From File.

YMMV. :)

[maharetr.livejournal.com]

Imported with One Simple Click(tm)! Thanks very very muchly :)

[juffles.livejournal.com]

I exist to serve, madam. *bow*