What happened to my bookmarks?!

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@LisaLinn,
Thank you for your patience and understanding. I think that we’re going to have to go digging around in your browser profile and confirm whether or not the bookmarks are still there. I helped another user out with these steps – they’re not as intimidating as they may seem. You’re just looking for the bookmarks file, and searching.

Try the following:

  1. In Windows, find where Brave stores data by going to C:\Users\[YourUserName]\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default
  • Note: If you do have more than one profile, replace the Default in the last part of the address with the profile folder you use normally (ie Profile 1, Profile 2, etc).
  1. You should see a whole bunch of stuff here, but we’re just looking for the files that hold some identifying data so that you can confirm that it is, indeed, the very same profile data you’re looking for. Scroll down until you see a Bookmarks file, right-click on the file, then Open with --> Notepad . :

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  1. Notepad should launch with some code in it that looks something like this:
{
   "checksum": "854d136e73b36b3e994587498f1e9d12",
   "roots": {
      "bookmark_bar": {
         "children": [ {
            "date_added": "13235765365138038",
            "guid": "9042fc64-ee18-45d7-822c-0356159a98b3",
            "id": "5",
            "name": "Games - Lumosity",
            "type": "url",
            "url": "https://www.lumosity.com/app/v4/games"
         } ],
         "date_added": "13224657173689755",
         "date_modified": "13235765365138038",
         "guid": "00000000-0000-4000-a000-000000000002",
         "id": "1",
         "meta_info": {
            "order": "1.0.1"
         },
         "name": "Bookmarks",
         "type": "folder"
...
}

In my example above, amongst all the code you can see https://www.lumosity.com/app/v4/games" next to the "url" label. This, as you may have guessed, is a bookmark! So on your end, try searching the file (ctrl + f) for a bookmark(s) that youknow aren’t appearing in the browser (since you said some of the bookmarks do appear, jsut not all of them).

Tell me if you can find the bookmarks that are missing from your browser. Additionally, do you have all of the same bookmarks that aren’t appearing saved in Chrome?