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Re: [PLUG] OT:Recovery of firefox bookmarks from places.sqlite
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Judging by the schema here:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/0/08/Places.sqlite.schema.pdf
You should be able to run sqlite3 on the file and convert it into any
sort of format you would like. A query such as this should get most of
the information you'd be interested in:
sqlite> select * from moz_bookmarks, moz_places WHERE moz_places.id =
moz_bookmarks.id;
If you're just moving it to a new Firefox installation, you might even
be able to drop the database in his profile directory when Firefox
isn't running. Haven't tried that, so I can't say for sure.
- Chaz Meyers
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Michael Lazin <microlaser@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I have a friend with a windoze computer that the motherboard died on.
> He bought a new computer. He wants me to retrieve the files and firefox
> bookmarks from the hard drive of the old machine. I plugged the hard drive
> into my linux box and mounted it and copied his "My Documents" and his
> places.sqlite files to an external hard drive. How can I recover his
> bookmarks from the places.sqlite file?
>
> --
> Michael Lazin
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