Still can't recover my bookmarks

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I think it’s time to go the nuclear route. Try the following:

  1. Make sure you have a copy of your session-store-1 file stored safely somewhere. In fact, to be safe go ahead and copy that entire folder (holding that file).
  2. Uninstall everything Brave related. Everything - new build, old builds and browsing data for both. If you still see Brave directories floating around - delete em.
  3. Now, once Brave has been wiped, go here to download a 0.24x version of Brave (Muon)
  4. Install it, navigate to your .config/brave path, and replace the session-store-1 file found there with the copy of your old session file you saved in step 1.
  5. Relaunch Brave - you may even want to reboot your machine - and check to see if your bookmarks appear (they should).

From there, if they appear you can follow the same steps above to export BMs and import into Brave Core:

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No, they’re still not there

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I was just about to respond to your post about the .deb file not working then it disappeared.
Did you get it to run/install?

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If so, just to confirm, you replaced the session-store-1 file in the new .config/brave folder created after installing the .deb file, correct? Also, did you happen to save the whole .config/brave folder, or just the session file?
EDIT: Also cc @sampson for backup

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@kdnr2374 Can you open the session-store-1 file with a text editor and do a search for "bookmarks": in the contents. If you find it, you should see some text that follows which includes familiar website addresses; these are your bookmarks.

Please confirm that this works, and we can proceed to retrieve these bookmarks.

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Yes. I eventually managed to install it via the terminal. I replaced the file, didn’t work, and then replaced the whole folder just in case, but it did not work

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It does appear, but it’s at the very end of the file and nothing follows after that. It appears like this:

“bookmarks”:{},“tabs”:}

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@kdnr2374 Apologies, but that suggests there are no bookmarks. Something appears to have corrupted the file, or the entire Brave folder (causing a new profile to be created). Do you recall also losing history, extensions, or stored passwords?

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Closed in favor of “master” issue below.
Even if you’ve already reported this issue before – reply here with some details about what did (or did not) get imported when they tried using the importer if you’d like to help us get this issue resolved: