Subj : Re: Dell 780 Problem: To : All From : nospam@needed.invalid Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 19:16:25 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.o rg!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Subject: Re: Dell 780 Problem: Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 01:09:54 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 138 Message-ID: References: <7f18b466-63df-408a-bab7-4c3213a16544@googlegroups.com> <18183a02-24d7-4fa2-ab77-fac986c26fec@googlegroups.com> <235c4733-0fdc-4e34-8f87-ea020adb1fd5@googlegroups.com> <5cb4791d-485c-4204-a997-54ed03593b87@googlegroups.com> <94b9f89e-da43-4f08-b585-f8bca9dcbbe7@googlegroups.com> <1b4ffbbb-34dc-4a5a-a5a1-29713bd7926a@googlegroups.com> <05bf1d02-efee-4746-86c0-f07e3df0b26d@googlegroups.com> <8d3d0d14-c011-451f-90ac-d87e6a113bd6@googlegroups.com> <149b0b29-5ca2-461b-917d-4f5670322138@googlegroups.com> <957a41e3-15c8-4f51-956a-fe25edffa84d@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 06:09:56 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="179d28e5151e4cb08de10adb940e1c0e"; logging-data="15487"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18zOChxuyZxJ42skY10fKfNjGhUYy22fPs=" User-Agent: Ratcatcher/2.0.0.25 (Windows/20130802) In-Reply-To: <957a41e3-15c8-4f51-956a-fe25edffa84d@googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:8FFJaciSUFyo6IUyBpyzIyXvSOQ= Xref: feeder.eternal-september.org microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:134661 Mark Twain wrote: >> And what volume do you keep that on ? >> >> Is it somewhere on the C: drive ? >> >> Where would it normally be located ? >> >> Paul > > Well it's on the FF sidebar when online. So > I don't know how to look that up? I also still > don't have a clue why it disappeared? I've checked > every folder just in case I accidentally moved it > with my mouse but I can't find it. Is there a way > to search for it? What was that program you gave me > to search for things? (See why I need the folder?) > > I also still need your assistance to detach the WD HD > from the 8500. > > Thanks, > Robert I have a suspicion you're referring to a folder within the Bookmarks Manager. In the first picture, is the Bookmarks Sidebar. To get this in the old Firefox, you selected Customize and added the Sidebar icon to the tool bar. Then clicked that to select Bookmarks Sidebar. And that would appear on the left. There are two Bookmark Sidebars in the picture. The left-hand one is Firefox 53. The right hand one is Firefox 59 (Nightly compile). You can see the color scheme changed around Firefox 57, and the image is that "flat" looking. https://s7.postimg.org/f05kbgg0r/firefox53_vs_59.gif In both pictures, you can see "BobsFolder" which is a test folder I created for sorting my bookmarks. This could be what you've done, sorted your bookmarks into categories. Now, yours have disappeared, and the bookmark sidebar, or the Bookmarks Manager (control-shift-B). So the reason I'm showing both Sidebars, is to show you that Firefox 59 (after Quantum) supports the bookmarks just the same way as Firefox 53. The appearance is the same. I didn't lose any bookmarks. In addition, in Firefox 59, I did a "restore" of the bookmarks. When I started Firefox 59, it started in a private profile, not the same profile as Firefox 53. To "populate" the Sidebar and bring in my bookmarks, I did a restore. To do this, first I had to locate the location on the C: drive where the Bookmark Backups are stored. That's in the bottom middle of the following picture. And in this picture, I use the Bookmark Manager to do a restore. https://s7.postimg.org/7iwcwqix7/restore_bookmarks.gif So when I restored bookmarks from Firefox 53, they worked. ******* If your Sidebar appears damaged, you could use the Restore feature, to move backward in time and use a previous bookmarks. That's why the backups are there. In addition, you can even create a backup of the current bookmarks. Although in your case, they're probably pretty empty. In any case, that second picture should show you both Backup (jsonlz4) and Restore (from jsonlz4) files. And the menu shows the same dates as the file folder I show in the bottom of the picture. ******* To disconnect the WDC external drive. 1) Go to Disk Management. 2) Use the left-most square on the line for the WDC drive. Select "Offline" to put the drive offline. 3) Now, the Safely Remove for USB devices in the lower right hand corner of the screen should work. A confirmation dialog should appear indicating this time it worked. This workaround has the side effect, that the next time the WDC is connected, you'll have to: 1) Go to Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) 2) Use the left-most square on the line for the WDC drive you plugged in. Select "Online". 3) Only now can you use the partitions on the WDC and make your backups. The workaround solves the "busy NTFS TXF problem", for which I don't have a real cure. I have caught Macrium using that function, but I don't know why they bother with it. I had a performance issue, did a little forensic work, and I could see some TXF activity multiple times a second, slowing down the data block writes to disk. It's possible killing the Macrium service might fix it, but I didn't try that :-) Too messy. ******* I haven't looked at your pictures yet, and wanted to write this first and forward it so you can get some bookmarks without any more "Macrium fun" :-) With some luck, there are probably enough bookmark backups, for you to fix this using only what is on the C: drive already. The only thing that's hard to navigate here, is finding the Appdata folder which is hidden. You won't need to try this, to use the Restore menu. This is only in case you want to see this folder, for example, to check whether all of these backups were destroyed. I don't know yet whether there are actually any backups for you to use. So this string is the general format for where Firefox stored the Bookmark backups. C:\Users\User Name\Appdata\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\abcd1234.default\bookmarkbackups You can try the following in Command Prompt as yourself. cd /d C:\Users\User Name\Appdata\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles explorer . and the File Explorer window that appears, might be able to burrow below the Appdata folder. Substitute your own account name, for my bogus "User Name" field. I haven't tested that, and that might be easier than fooling around with the folder view in File Explorer so all the hidden stuff is unhidden. Paul --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .