Deleting things help us make room for new stuff. Nonetheless, deletion can become painful sometimes. As an internet user, you know what a bookmark is. Chances are you have tons of bookmarks on your Chrome browser as well. Stay updated with the latest posts of Brighter Guide!
What if they get deleted? Yeah, one day, you see all of them gone. Or you accidentally deleted every single one of your bookmarks. How can you cope up with it? Moreover, how can you restore them? In this article, you will learn how to regain the bookmarks on the Chrome browser if deleted. You can follow the steps given below to do that.
Note: You will find two methods for doing this, while the first method will work for most of you. The second one can be applied by only those people who use Chrome on multiple devices.
Restoring Deleted Bookmarks on Chrome
Step 1: Maybe, your fingers have slipped that you deleted the entire bookmarks folder. And, now you want to restore them. Keep the Google Chrome browser in the state you have now. Don’t do anything.
Step 2: Now, you have to trigger the Run dialogue box. For that, you can press Win key+ R. It will suddenly show a dialogue box on the right-bottom part of the screen Google Chrome.
Step 3: At this step, copy the following path into the field given there and press Enter. Make sure you don’t alter the path in any way.
%localappdata%GoogleChromeUser DataDefault
Step 4: What you get is a file browser window with a special folder opened. It is the folder for the Google Chrome browser, where all information about it is stored in the window. You can see many folders there. Scroll down a bit to the bottom to see two files; Bookmarks and Bookmarks.bak.
Step 5: The first one without extension is the live file with all your current bookmarks are placed. The second one with .bak extension contains the backup of the bookmark folder taken when you last closed the browser. What we are going to do is to take a copy of the .bak file.
For that, press and hold the right button on the file and drag to another portion. From the context menu that pops up, you can select Copy here. It will create a copy of the same file on the same location window.
Step 6: Now that we have taken care of the backup, we need to make it the primary live bookmark file. So, you need to delete the other two files. Click on it and then select the next one by holding the Ctrl key on the keyboard.
Step 7: Once you delete the two files, you have to rename the copied file. You can rename it to Bookmarks without any extension. But, putting back the extension again will make it a backup file. So, it would help if you did not do that.
Step 8: The final step is verifying the bookmarks. Make sure you followed all the steps given above. When you finish Step 7, you can move on to opening the Chrome browser. Open it up and check the bookmarks bar. Don’t forget to open all the folders there if you have any.
What should you do if it doesn’t work out for you? Well, you can try scanning the C drive (or the drive you installed the browser into) for lost bookmarks. However, if you are not familiar with computers or don’t want to scan the entire C Drive, you can do the following.
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Method for Recovering Chrome Bookmarks (if you use multiple computers)
If you use Chrome on multiple computers and have logged into all of those using the same google account, your bookmarks will get synced among all computers. If you have deleted all the bookmarks from one computer, you can start another computer and disconnect the internet on it. Next, open chrome on it, and go to bookmarks from settings. When you are at the bookmarks page, you can export all your bookmarks to make a local backup.
Once you have taken a local backup of all your bookmarks, you can connect your computer to the internet. You will immediately see that your bookmarks are gone. Don’t worry, open bookmarks manager from settings and bookmarks from the local file you just exported. Now you will have all your chrome bookmarks recovered.
Wrapping Up
I hope you know how to recover lost bookmarks on the Chrome browser now. If you have any doubts, you can comment down below. I will reach out to you at the earliest with a possible solution. Also, in case you know of any other convenient method, don’t hesitate to share it with us below. Ask us about bookmarks file, export bookmarks, current bookmarks file, google history, automatic bookmark updates, undo command, file extension, file recovery software, browser update, bookmarks recovery solution, or anything from the article.
The only way to restore something like this is to use a separate browser to keep the bookmarks in sync so that I can still backup them to another service.
I accidently deleted my major backup folder in Chrome. I retrieved a previous backup file of Bookmarks. I copied the previous backup file and pasted it over the existing backup file. The file size increased indicating it was a larger file.
When I opened Chrome and the missing bookmark folder was listed. However, within a few seconds it disappeared. I tried different things and the bookmark folder appears and within seconds it disappears.
I don’t know how to correct that problem
Any suggestions?
Yeah, well-nothing I tried which anyone suggested on multiple sites has worked. All my bookmarks in a folder I accidentally cut are actually deleted and gone forever. I wasn’t smart enough to back them up to another location.