How do I transfer bookmarks stored in a JSON file?

[J2D]

Im in the same boat i cant load my saved .JSON bookmarks. And i have alot of them that i lost like 2 yrs worth.

I have tried everything this sucks.

[alabama_tom]

I am also totally pissed off at firefox... after three days of trying I finally got my bookmarks transferred to the new machine and now I rebooted and they are gone again...

Another couple of days at this and I will quit firefox forever. There is no need for this bs.

[alabama_tom]

I followed the route of replacing the *.json backup file and then restored from the "choose file" list. Worked great. But now the thrill is gone. All my old book marks are gone again. and now I cannot get them back from the same file because it is suddenly unreadable.......
The old "unable to process file" message is disgusting to me as I have seen it too many times. This software company has software that defeats itself. wtf? The effort makes me tired, all work, no reward.
Tomorrow I'll do the stooge thing and totally repeat what I did tonight, hoping that it works. But what a stupid thing to do, repeating what you know does not work, over, and over, and over... sounds like the federal reserve system trying to make a sustainable financial system by printing more and more and more money.

[flq2oc]

There is a website that can take a json file and show you onscreen some of the contents of it. If you have a small number of bookmarks you may be able to recover them this way. Search these forums, the link was posted (I can't find it now). Also, a "binary to plain text" utility will probably give you the names of the bookmarks in your JSON file, but not the URLs. http://windowssecrets.com/support-alert ... nary-files
Also, hold on to your JSON files, don't delete them. Possibly, Firefox 3.1 will know better what to do with them.

[dickvl]

You try a bookmarklet like this to extract http links:

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javascript:(function(){var E=document.getElementsByTagName('PRE')[0],T=E.innerHTML,i=0,r1,r2;t=new Array();while(/("uri":"([^"]*)")/g.exec(T)){r1=RegExp.$1;r2=RegExp.$2;if(/^https?:/.exec(r2)){t[i++]='['+(i)+']:<a href='+r2+'>'+r2+'<\/a>';}}with(window.open().document){for(i=0;t[i];i++)write(t[i]+'<br>');close();}})();

[vira]

thanks paste worked

[Pius]

OK Tom, will look into it.

Sorry for the dullness dickvl, but how would I use the coding for the .json file? Need some instruction there.

Thanks.

[guest44X]

I'm trying to ADD bookmarks from one (now wiped clean) computer to another, without deleting the bookmarks already on said 'new' computer. I saved the bookmarks from the old computer as a json file but I'm concerned that if I use RESTORE to import these bookmarks, I will erase the bookmarks already on the 'new' computer.

Any suggestions on a work around?

Thanks

[trolly]

Use "Import".

Make a clean profile, restore the JSON file and export it as HTML. Then go to your standard profile and import the HTML file.

[alterna]

or

First, save the bookmarks in the "new computer" by Library > Import and Backup > Export html and save that to desktop

Then Library > Import and Backup > Restore > Choose File browse to your .json.. This wil REPLACE all your bookmarks

Then Library > Import and Backup > Import html, import the html you'd previously saved, this will ADD those bookmarks to the now current set.

[pariah01]

I don't see "Import and Backup" or "Restore" functions in the "organize bookmarks" scheme.

All I see is "import" and "export."

[LoudNoise]

You are using 2.0.0.20 and therefore do not use the *.json files. Your bookmarks are regular HTML files.

[pariah01]

Oh. So upgrade and it'll work?

[trolly]

If you have a json file, yes. But FF2 does not create json files.

[Guest]

coyot's answer worked for me. thanks!