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tuongericdoan
Hello, everybody. . . .
Due to a power interruption in our place, my computer shut down. I was surfing the internet using the K-Meleon 1.5.3 Browser when it happened. When power came back on, I went back to what I was doing but I noticed that the bookmark function had disappeared, and up to the present I could not find nor use it.
Any ideas on what caused the disappearance? I would like some assistance please.
Thanks.
Most probably the reason is that the hard shutdown caused a write error.
So You either lost the profile.ini, profiles.ini or bookmarks.html.
Function of first. Makes that profile is in K-Meleon install folder. 4 Portable, old windows or system with several K-M.
To fix. Create file named thus in install folder. can be empty. If You had such an install,
Rarely happens. Even with this configuration the next happens more often.
The most common reason/error especially after Windows did a scan-disk run!
Function & location of profiles.ini. It is in K-Meleon Profiles folder and directs K-Meleon which profile in Profiles directory to use. Format: plain text file. You can edit to fix it if You know enough. But there are easier solutions.
You will find all locations via EDIT -> Configuration...
To fix. Go to Profiles folder and look whether it contains many profiles. Go into each profile, look for a bookmarks.html and open it with k-meleon. If You find the right one - copy it to the currently used profile. You can also edit profiles.ini to point to this profile with the right bookmarks file or copy its whole content profile folder into the currently used profile. The later idea was posted for my by siria.
bookmarks.html is rarely if ever damaged. A bookmarks_backup.html exists in the used profile next to bookmarks.html and can be renamed to bookmarks.html. But first You'd check whether it is the right backup and not broken too. You can see immediately that the backup is bigger and You must also open the file with the browser first to make sure it is right and no broken.
p.s. Maybe update to a current development version. Possible for XP sp3 or newer OS and fairly old hardware, In Forum
http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/list.php?19 Unofficial versions development, K-Meleon on Goanna (Goanna us a fork of the Mozilla engine)
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/21/2017 10:33AM by guenter.