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The file name is incorrectly capitalized in the title of this article due to <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(technical_restrictions)" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions)">technical limitations</a> in the software which powers the Knowledge Base.</div> <p>bookmarks.bak is a Firefox backup of <a href="/Bookmarks.html" title="Bookmarks.html">bookmarks.html</a> in case of computer failure (ex: power outage). When Firefox is started and bookmarks.html is either missing or reduced to "0", bookmarks.bak will be used, if present, instead of the default set of bookmarks <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218636#c15">[1]</a>. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Editing"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Editing</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Moving"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Moving</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Deleting"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Deleting</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Related_files_and_folders"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Related files and folders</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Related_bug_reports"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Related bug reports</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Editing">Editing</span></h2> <p>This file can be edited in the same manner as <a href="/Bookmarks.html" title="Bookmarks.html">bookmarks.html</a>, but there's no reason to do so. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Moving">Moving</span></h2> <p>This file can be moved to a different profile without any extra effort, but there's no reason to do so. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Deleting">Deleting</span></h2> <p>Deleting bookmarks.bak will have no effect except for losing a backup. The file will be regenerated, normally the next time Firefox is closed. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Related_files_and_folders">Related files and folders</span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/Bookmarkbackups_folder" title="Bookmarkbackups folder">bookmarkbackups folder</a></li> <li><a href="/Bookmarks.html" title="Bookmarks.html">bookmarks.html</a></li> <li><a href="/Bookmarks.html.moztmp" title="Bookmarks.html.moztmp">bookmarks.html.moztmp</a></li> <li><a href="/Bookmarks-(date).html" title="Bookmarks-(date).html">bookmarks-(date).html</a></li> <li><a href="/index.php?title=Bookmarks-(number).html&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bookmarks-(number).html (page does not exist)">bookmarks-(number).html</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Related_bug_reports">Related bug reports</span></h2> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218636">Bug 218636 - backup bookmark file</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265120">Bug 265120 - Bookmark backup is either broken or useless, bookmarks.bak is always a copy of bookmarks.html</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/Bookmarks" title="Bookmarks">Bookmarks</a></li></ul>    </div> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.php?title=Bookmarks.bak&oldid=29979">http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.php?title=Bookmarks.bak&oldid=29979</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories">Categories</a>: <ul><li><a href="/Category:Bookmarks" title="Category:Bookmarks">Bookmarks</a></li><li><a href="/Category:Profile_contents_(Firefox)" title="Category:Profile contents (Firefox)">Profile contents (Firefox)</a></li></ul></div></div>  <div class="visualClear"></div> </div> </div> <div class="visualClear"></div> </div> <div id="column-one" > <h2>Navigation menu</h2> <div role="navigation" class="portlet" id="p-cactions" aria-labelledby="p-cactions-label"> <h3 id="p-cactions-label" >Page actions</h3> <div class="pBody"> <ul > <li id="ca-nstab-main" class="selected mw-list-item"><a href="/Bookmarks.bak" title="View the content page [c]" accesskey="c">Page</a></li><li id="ca-talk" class="new mw-list-item"><a href="/index.php?title=Talk:Bookmarks.bak&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="discussion" title="Discussion about the content page (page does not exist) [t]" accesskey="t">Discussion</a></li><li id="ca-view" class="selected mw-list-item"><a href="/Bookmarks.bak">Read</a></li><li id="ca-viewsource" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/index.php?title=Bookmarks.bak&action=edit" title="This page is protected.
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