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pptlove_1
Copper Contributor
May 31, 2023

My Edge Bookmarks has gone

My Edge bookmarks had disappeared a few days ago. I've find the file "Bookmarks.bak" from "%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default", but it didn't have "Bookmarks.old" in it, so I CAN'T recover the bookmarks to Edge. I've heard a few users have the same problem.

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  • AfricanViking's avatar
    AfricanViking
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 20, 2025

    Hello - same trouble as the other users. Did anyone get an answer from the support team on why it happened in the first place and more importantly, how one can restore all the history and bookmarks? I also never experienced this in over 25 years!

  • Jeremiah-V's avatar
    Jeremiah-V
    Iron Contributor
    Jun 02, 2023
    Hello,
    I'd like to know if your bookmarks are showing the running state on the sync internals page. To check, make sure you're logged into your MS Edge profile and enter edge://sync-internals in the address bar > Look for Bookmarks in the Type Info section. Is the State column showing "Running"? What's the number of total entries?
    • Deleted's avatar
      Deleted
      Aug 16, 2024
      Hello - same trouble - there must have been some update - When I left in the morning the PC was normal, when I open it at 3.p.m - got a new wallpaper, new Edge -all my tabs were gone making me crazy till the time I discovered not only tabs are missing, also history is missing and all my bookmarks gone. There is no Bookmark file at all. not even with .old suffix.
      I have never seen this in any browser on PC/Mac in at least 22years - HOW CAN UPDATE DELETE A DATA FILE? ON THE SAME WAY MY DOCUMENTS CAN START MISSING AFTER UPDATES?

      ANY THOUGHTS how I can prevent this or get my 2 years bookmark back?
      notjing in type info
      nor the work this https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/recover-lost-or-deleted-favorites-in-microsoft-edge-ac06270e-ba57-4266-8389-8bfd1df1aa5e wokrs - there is no such options to restore favourites.
      All sorted accommodation, DIY tutorials I willl never ever find 10% of it. I would never dream of update deleting file. I did try system restore - to no result - In the past I tried to disable windows updates, as with updates commonly sound has gone, but the updates comes back. Any thought how to prevent hist. I would like MS to get answer for something I paid for deleting my mental property it is unbelieve

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