Edited (a)(4)(in the FolderSearching part) much later!
Hi, MarkS,
if you don't mind, let us try to go about it systematically:
(a) Are you sure it really is "bookmarks" we are talking about? Not "Favorites", not "Opera Hotlist"?
Find out by hitting F2, expanding "K-Meleon Plugins". There is a settings page for all three of them, each page with an "Enable support for..." tickbox as the first item. Make sure the one on the "Netscape Bookmarks" page is ticked, untick the other two for the time being. Restart K-M (+the loader..) Should your bookmarks be gone now altogether, we were NOT talking about bookmarks! -let us know, then.
(b) Now, assuming we WERE talking about bookmarks, then I'm positive you DO have 2 bookmarks.html files for K-Meleon.
One is in
program files/k-meleon/defaults/profile (2.95k)
those are the out-of-the-box bookmarks.
The other one is the one you will want to backup. It IS in your profile folder - even if your Vista installation can't be moved by K-Meleon to open that in Explorer when you click
Edit>Configuration>Profile Directory.
(c) So, let's find your Profile Folder
(I don't have Vista, so I don't know WHAT steps you have to take to be shown each&every file or folder ..., on earlier Windows it was a good idea to have a look at CtrlPanel -> Folder Options.)
[a] check existence of a profile.ini in K-M folder:
[1] not present: profile in AppDataFolder
[2] present, contains "isrelative=0": profile in AppData Folder
[3] present, contains "isrelative=1": profile in K-Meleon Folder, within the folder with the name given in "path=",
[4] present, but empty: profile in K-Meleon Folder, within the folder with the name "Profiles".
Now, the default for that "path=" is "Profiles", meaning: ALL the profiles used by that installation of K-M store their PROFILE DATA (files&folders! including bookmarks.html) in SUBFOLDERS of a folder called "Profiles" in one of the said locations.
Now find out more:
{b] open profiles.ini in "Profiles": (what a difference an "s" makes...)
[1] (1st line) [ProfileNumber] : start Counting from Zero!
[2] (2nd line) Name= : The name you see in the ProfileManager PopUp window
[3] (3rd line) Path= : The name of the folder containing your actual profile.
[4] (4th line) IsRelative= : do not change the value given here unless you know what you are doing.
[5] (5th line) Default= : only one out of the profiles listed should show a "1" here. That will be the default, the standard, the one that is loaded automatically, all others should have a "0" here.
[6] ("General"line) StartWithLastProfile=1 : imagine you loaded a different profile by starting from the commandline or a shortcut - would you want K-Meleon to use that one from then on, on every new start? then it should be "1", else "0".
If this does not help you to find your bookmarks.html, please post the contents of your profiles.ini, and of your profile.ini if you've got one.
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MarkS
No offense, but what is up with open-source advice?
Well, considering it IS free, and no one is being paid for it ... No offense, but: as this was not about having lost your bookmarks, how about a bit more patience and less alarm?
EDIT: siria was faster, and easier:
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On the right pane there's a field with the full path of the current bookmarks, wherever a user has put them.
That hard to find??
Cheers
SoerenB
Back again ...
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/16/2010 07:37PM by SoerenB.