From: tholen@antispam.ham   
      
   Dave Yeo  writes:   
      
   >> For better or for worse, I've not been using the MOZILLA_HOME   
   >> environment variable to have a single, central repository for   
   >> bookmarks and such.   
   >>   
   >> So, to migrate my bookmarks from one of the pre-releases to   
   >> this formal release, I used the bookmark backup/restore feature   
   >> in the pre-release browser to create a backup of my bookmarks.   
   >> Then in the formal release browser, I used the backup/restore   
   >> feature to restore them from the same file.  It warns me about   
   >> overwriting my existing bookmarks, of which there are none in   
   >> the new browser, so I go ahead and confirm.  There's some disk   
   >> activity, but the supposedly restored bookmarks don't appear.   
   >> Tried it more than once.  Also tried importing the HTML   
   >> bookmark file directly from the directory where the pre-release   
   >> browser kept them.  Also didn't work.  What's going on here?   
      
   > Try using export from your old profile then import the HTML file in to    
   > your new profile.   
      
   That worked.  Thanks for the suggestion.   
      
   Is the fact that the backup/restore approach didn't work indicative   
   of a bug in Firefox 4, or a misunderstanding of how it's supposed   
   to work?   
      
      
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