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To: steve phil who wrote (4957)	8/8/1999 9:27:00 AM
From: wily	Respond to of 110588

aside to mark: (uh-oh, I feel a Systemworks rant coming on) steve, couple of ideas. Depending on how large and valuable the file was: Go through your History folder (or whatever the equivalent is in Netscape) and see if the url's will copy back over to your bookmarks folder. Or you could click on each one to bring up the web-page and then save it as a bookmark again. You could get the more recently used ones this way. For $40 PowerQuest sells Lost & Found. I used it successfully to recover a partition that I accidentally formatted, but I don't know how good it would be at recovering deleted files. Especially since you will probably need to continue using your disk in the meantime -- I doubt this would be a good solution. But if you were really interested you could give PQ tech-support a call. Need I say, you should have had them backed up? w

To: steve phil who wrote (4957)	8/8/1999 10:07:00 AM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110588

Missing bookmarks in Netscape ... Try the other guy's suggestion of using your History first. If Netscape stores bookmarks in a file and you've erased that file, you could try an 'UNDELETE' utility to bring it back. If you download an UNDELETE, be sure to save it to a floppy so you don't overwrite the space on your hard drive. If Netscape stores bookmarks in a file and you've emptied that file, make a copy of the emptied file. Try looking inside the file with a text editor such as NOTEPAD and see if you can cut and paste the URLs you find. Often emptied files are not compressed, but just MARKED as empty. Again, how Netscape stores this information will determine your approach to recovering it. I don't use Netscape, so I can't be specific. Cheers, PW. P.S. Many moons ago, I used Netscape 3.0 with Win31. The bookmarks were stored in a file C:\NETSCAPE\BOOKMARK.HTM on that machine. This was a text file and readable with NOTEPAD. You can use FIND to see if a file like this exists.

To: steve phil who wrote (4957)	8/8/1999 10:14:00 AM
From: wily	Respond to of 110588

Oh yeah, also check your Recycle Bin. They could all be in there. w

To: steve phil who wrote (4957)	8/8/1999 11:21:00 AM
From: RJL	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110588

I agree with PW and wily's posts...try their suggestions first. If you have a standard installation of Netscape, the bookmarks are stored in one file called bookmarks.htm located in the C:\Program Files\Netscape\Users\<whatever your name is> directory. If you had manually deleted some of the bookmarks, Netscape automatically appends the file, so without a backup, you're pretty up SOL. However, if the entire file was deleted, you might be able to restore it using undelete, IF you didn't restart Netscape since Netscape will re-create a fresh bookmark file if it doesn't locate the old one. Either way...it's a precarious situation without a backup. Good luck, Rich