Last accessed my bookmarks last night at 1030pm EST (June 13, 2020). I did not create a profile, I did not sync, I only used brave browser on MacOs catalina. I did not update brave browser. After using it last night, I closed the browser and put the computer to sleep.
Today (june 14, 2020), I used brave browser and all the bookmarks are gone. I did not manually update the browser, I did not delete any profiles, I did not delete any brave folder(s) from my MacOs. In summary, I closed the browser routinely and used it today like I always do. So I am not sure what happened. I had over 100 bookmarks and no, i did not manually create any backup.
Nope. Never occurred to me because I was not planning to updating the browser. I was using brave for work and wanted to keep it separate. never used the browser for anything else. I cannot even find the bookmark folder or macOS because they might be in there.
I am not using this anymore especially if I cant find the bookmark folder. I am in library>applicationsupport>bravesoftware>brave-browser. I donât see anything labeled bookmarks in brave-browser folder.
What is in this file:
/Users/al/Library/Application\ Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default/Bookmarks
It should be an XML file of your bookmarks. It may look like gibberish to you but you should see some familiar items.
Why not try to export the bookmarks and see what is in the file you get. Go to Bookmarks, Manager, and at the 3 dots in upper right choose Export Bookmarks. You should get an .html file wherever it downloads. Go there and dbl-click and it should render.
You have an old version of Brave. Why not update and see if they come back.
I doubt they are really gone, there is just something preventing them from loading.
1 - I included the updated screenshots. In default folder, there is only one file titled bookmark. it is not in XML format. Regardless, I tried to import this file into brave but did not work.
2 - I did export bookmark from brave and it was saved as HTML file. I double clicked it and it opened up in safari. I added the screenshot. It seems empty.
3 - I tried to open that bookmark file with brave and included the screen shot.
Yeah, I think it is a lost cause. I have no idea what might have happened. If you have a really good âfindâ utility (there are several for the Mac⌠PathFinder and EasyFind ⌠and perhaps search for "bookmarkâ and perhaps it got moved somewhere else? It is worth a try. (I donât think Spotlight search will work for this.
You could try in terminal: find / -name âbookmarks*â but that will output a lot of data but you might find the file.