I would like to restore bookmarks from an old Linux system that is not functional but I have access to backup files. There is a directory /home/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser. but I do not see a file named bookmarks, nor a folder /default. I do not know what version of Brave was running, but it seems the directory structure and files may have been named differently then. How would I restore the bookmarks?. And this is the file structure
Hello @alykassem2000
the bath should be
/home/yourUserName/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default/
and the bookmark would be in file named Bookmarks
hope that help and have a nice day 
There is no named file called Default
the path you mentioned in your post was
/home/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser
are you sure you in your old user account folder?
also if there no default then you would see folder called profile ? replace ? with any number inside /home/yourUserName/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/
This the structure /home/yourUserName/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/
which linux distro you use and how did you installed brave ?
Debian 10 buster. installed using the regular way
regular way mean this one
sudo apt install apt-transport-https curl
sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main"|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install brave-browser
yes, I used it to install
@alykassem2000,
If that is all you’re seeing in the backup, then whatever means you used to backup your system files/state did not (apparently) backup all of the Brave user data directory. If this is the case then access to your old bookmarks is not possible. Can you tell me what method you used to backup this information?
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I mounted the Linux using ubuntu, and get the data
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