{"id":15674,"date":"2018-10-05T11:34:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T15:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=15674"},"modified":"2018-10-05T11:34:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T15:34:37","slug":"how-to-recover-missing-bookmarks-in-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-recover-missing-bookmarks-in-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Recover Missing Bookmarks in Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>How to Recover Missing Bookmarks in Chrome After a Chrome Update<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Marjorie, one of our Cloudeight subscribers, alerted us to this problem that has plagued many Chrome user. It seems that when Chrome updates it sometimes removes all the user&#8217;s bookmarks. We checked on this phenomenon and found that&#8217;s it more common than we thought.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Luckily, Chrome automatically creates a backup of your bookmarks every time you open Chrome; they&#8217;re saved in a file called bookmarks.bak. We were able to help Marjorie recover her bookmarks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">If a Chrome update wipes our your bookmarks, you can get them back. Here&#8217;s how:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">First, make sure you are able to view hidden files and folders in Windows.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/view-hidden-files-folders-and-drives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> See our tutorial here<\/a> if you&#8217;re not sure how to do this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Once you&#8217;re able to view hidden files and folders here&#8217;s what you need to do:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">1. Make sure that Google Chrome is closed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">2. Open File Explorer (Windows Key + E) and navigate to:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">C:\\Users\\NAME\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\Default<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">(note: for NAME you will need to substitute your Windows User Name)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">3. In that folder you&#8217;ll see two files: Bookmarks and Bookmarks.bak. The latter one is the most recent backup that Chrome created the very last time you opened the browser.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2018\/bookmark-recovery.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Chrome tips &amp; tricks\" width=\"567\" height=\"216\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">4. Rename the Bookmarks file to Bookmarks.old and then rename Bookmarks.bak to Bookmarks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">5. Close File Explorer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">6. Open Chrome<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Now all your bookmarks should be back in Chrome.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Recover Missing Bookmarks in Chrome After a Chrome Update Marjorie, one of our Cloudeight subscribers, alerted us to this problem that has plagued many Chrome user. It seems that when Chrome updates it sometimes removes all the user&#8217;s bookmarks. We checked on this phenomenon and found that&#8217;s it more common than we thought. Luckily, Chrome automatically\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-recover-missing-bookmarks-in-chrome\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2574,2247],"tags":[2700,2225,344,2701],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15675,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15674\/revisions\/15675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}