Where Did All My Bookmarks Go: 4 Ways to Recover Them Easily

Where did all my bookmarks go?

“I opened my browser and everything was wiped out. Especially the bookmarks that I needed for work have all disappeared without a trace.”  We often see this kind of problem posted online, and the same thing happens to a lot of people. Indeed, it is very annoying to encounter this situation.

Where did all my bookmarks go? In general, there are chances that your vanished bookmarks are somewhere on your PC. For example in Recycle Bin or in your bookmarks file. Also, sometimes the bookmarks bar suddenly disappears, you can restore the bar by pressing Ctrl + Shift + B on Windows PC.

Why have all my bookmarks disappeared?

The above method can successfully help you solve the problem “where did my bookmarks bar go?” In fact, there are many reasons why bookmarks suddenly disappear, here are a few of them:

● Accidentally deleted bookmarks.
● Browser or Windows system update.
● Used a different browser.
● Sync turned off while the profile is in use.
● Searching Bookmarks on a different profile.

Luckily, you've come to the right place, here are a few ways to help you get back your lost bookmarks.

How do I find my bookmarks that disappeared?

Where did all of my bookmarks go? How do I find my bookmarks that disappeared? If you are also stuck in the disappearance of Google bookmarks, you can read this page carefully. Next, we will take Google Chrome as an example to explain the best methods to easily restore lost bookmarks on your PC.

Way 1. Recover bookmarks using browsing history

Where did all my bookmarks go on chrome? As we all know, browsing history keeps all the web pages you have visited in recent days or even the past few months. If you accidentally delete a bookmark, you can browse your history and manually add the bookmark you need. Of course the premise is that you haven't cleared your Google history.

Step 1. Open Chrome.

Step 2. Click on three dots at the top-right corner of the browser window and click the History submenu.

Step 3. After signing in Google account and click History to get your bookmarks.  

Way 2. Recover bookmarks from the hard disk

If you are using the browser in incognito mode, using your browsing history to restore bookmarks will not work. Here, recovering bookmarks from the hard disk is a more convenient and relatively easier way to solve this problem.

Step 1. Open File Explorer on your PC and follow the path below:

C:\Users\username\App Data\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default

Step 2. Find the files name Bookmarks and Bookmarks.bak. The Bookmarks is the default file currently used by chrome while bookmarks.bak is the latest backup.   

Step 3. Rename the bookmarks file to a different name like bookmarks.old.

Step 4. Rename the bookmarks.bak to Bookmarks. 

Step 5. Relaunch Chrome to get the bookmarks back.

Way 3. Recover bookmarks using the HTML files

If you have exported the bookmarks before they got lost, or if you have the same bookmarks on other browsers then you can import them to the chrome browser. Check the following steps together.

Note: This way can only restore files from backup in a folder in the past. It is also helpful if your Chrome bookmarks disappear after an update or sync.

Step 1. Click on the three dots on the top-right of the Chrome window.

Step 2. Select the Import bookmarks and settings on the Bookmarks option.

Step 3. Tick the checkbox on Favorites/ Bookmarks.

Step 4. Navigate to the file destination to import Bookmarks HTML File, click Choose File.

Step 5. Select the bookmarks file you backed up in HTML format in the past and click Import.

Way 4. Recover bookmarks with Windows data recovery software without backup

Apart from the above methods mentioned in this post, is there any way to fix this issue “Where have all my bookmarks gone” without backup and restore them? A professional third-party data recovery software-MyRecover is highly recommended to restore your deleted bookmarks.

It is entirely possible that using the above method can not help you to recover data completely  for  some complicated reasons. Now with the help of this tool, you will not have to worry about these problems at all. MyRecover can be widely applicable to all data loss scenarios. We have outlined its main advantages, let’s take a look. 

★ It supports deleted files recovery, formatted file recovery, and other data recovery situations.
★ It is compatible with Windows 7/8/10/11 and Windows Server.
★ It can recover permanently deleted files from SSD/USB/HDD/memory card, external hard drives, and other storage devices in Windows.
★ It can recover over 200 types of files, such as PPT, Word, Excel, Photos, Videos, Audios, Zip files and etc.

Click the download button to get this useful software and follow the steps below.

Step 1. Open MyRecover on your PC. Hover the mouse over the partition and click Scan.

Step 2. The program's Quick Scan feature helps you find deleted files and Deep Scan feature helps you find other lost files in the partition. You can recover any file you want even if the scanning process is not complete. 

Step 3. Select files you want to restore and click on the Recover X files button to complete the process.

Conclusion

Where did all my bookmarks go? You can get the answer with the help of this article. Meanwhile,  we also provide several effective methods to help you easily recover deleted bookmarks without using professional computer knowledge. 

MyRecover can help you retrieve accidentally deleted bookmarks when you didn't back them up in advance. If you don't want to lose important files again, you can choose AOMEI Backupper to help you backup your related data regularly.