Bookmarks missing after import from Desktop MS Edge

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Description of the issue:
On the Brave Windows desktop, cannot import all of my bookmarks from MS Edge - it skips the Other Bookmarks and Mobile Bookmarks folders.

How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. On initial install with Copy Bookmarks.
  2. Settings > Get Started > Import bookmarks and settings > Microsoft Edge Profile 1 (also tried Bookmarks HTML File).

Expected result:
I expect all of my Edge bookmarks to be imported, not just the ones in the Favorites Toolbar.

Actual result:

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I didn’t have mobile bookmarks in Firefox, but everything else got imported, including the Other Bookmarks folder. For Edge, the Favorites Bar bookmarks were imported, along with the Mozilla folder (a holdover from importing bookmarks into Edge years ago). Unlike the Firefox import, the Other Bookmarks folder was not imported, nor was the Mobile Bookmarks folder. The contents were not dumped together in one big file - they just weren’t there at all.

On the second attempt, I tried going directly to edge://favorites, specifically opening the Mobile Bookmarks folder and creating an HTML file from there (More Options > Export Favorites), but the import result in Brave was exactly the same (renamed “Edge Mobile Bookmarks” for clarity).

NOTE: I also tried using the Brave Beta build as suggested in previous posts, but it didn’t work there either - it didn’t even generate a Mobile Bookmarks folder. The Other Bookmarks folder was also empty.

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Brave Version( check About Brave):
Version 1.76.73 Chromium: 134.0.6998.45 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Additional Information:
Windows 11 Pro
Microsoft Edge Version 133.0.3065.92 (Official build) (64-bit)

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I always - before installing an Internet browser - prepare, exported bookmarks.html files from other Internet browsers.

Check their size. Open them - using a text editor or Internet browser, in order to examine their contents.

After installing the Internet browser of interest, I then:

  • Quit the browser
  • Locate the new browser’s “Bookmarks” and “Bookmarks.BAK” files and toss them
  • Start the browser
  • Import one of the bookmarks.html files
  • Use the Bookmarks Manager to examine the imported bookmarks
  • Do some organizing of the bookmarks
  • Quit the browser
  • Start the browser
  • Import the next bookmarks.html file
  • Use the Bookmarks Manager to examine the imported bookmarks, and
  • Organize the collection of bookmarks
  • Quit the browser
  • Start the browser
  • Import the next bookmarks.html file
  • Use the Bookmarks Manager to examine the imported bookmarks, and
  • Organize the collection of bookmarks
  • Quit the browser
Brave Browser installation location on Windows OS

Application “brave.exe”

64 architecture

C:\Program Files\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe

The initial Brave Browser Profile is, by default, named “Profile 1” (unless you change that name → brave://settings/getStarted).

The folder that contains the initial Brave Browser Profile, is the Default folder (a name that you must not change):

C:\Users[UserName]\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\

That path may also be written:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\

If you create 1 additional Profile (aka “Profile 2”), it will be stored in folder Profile 1:

C:\Users[UserName]\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Profile 1\

If you create a 2nd additional Profile (aka “Profile 3”), it will be stored in folder Profile 2:

C:\Users[UserName]\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Profile 2\

IMPORTANT - Replacing Profile folders

When replacing Brave Browser Profile folders:

Folder named Default (including its contents) can only replace its likeness: the folder named Default.

Folder named Profile 1 (including its contents) can only replace its likeness: the folder named Profile 1.

Folder named Profile 2 (including its contents) can only replace its likeness: the folder named Profile 2.

IMPORTANT - Brave Browser Preferences

Some Brave Browser Preferences are stored in the Preferences file:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Preferences

The contents of that Preferences file, are not exactly the contents of, brave://prefs-internals/.

Some Brave Browser Preferences are stored in the Local State file:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Local State

Bookmarks and Bookmarks.bak files:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Bookmarks
%LOCALAPPDATA%\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Bookmarks.bak

Cache (folder):

%LOCALAPPDATA%\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Cache\

Cookies (file):

%LOCALAPPDATA%\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Cookies

History (file - usually lots of data):

%LOCALAPPDATA%\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\History

Crash Reports:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\BraveSoftware\CrashReports\

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I’ll try it that way - thanks.