FireFox - How to keep a backup of the Scrapbook add-on?

14 years ago

It has bothered me for some time that I don't know exactly which files (in Documents and Settings>[user name]> Application data>Mozilla Firefox>Profile>Scrapbook) to save to a zip disk or DVD to guard against losing them in the event of a crash or my having to reinstall the OS--which may soon be necessary. I have saved "Backup" to a zip disk, but would I also need the Data file and/or something else?

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ravencajun Zone 8b TX
14 years ago
you need to ask that to the developer here is the link to that site
ScrapBook
contact page for creator
Gomita

there are programs like xmarks which sync and save your bookmarks/favorites I have no idea if there is a way to also back up the files for that add on.
biwako_of_abi
Original Author
14 years ago
Thanks, Ravencajun, I can see that I'll have to spend some time on the first site, and I'm glad to have the URL. If that doesn't give me an answer, I'll contact Gomita.

Right now, it looks as if I can export individual items from Bookmarks. I booted up this morning to find, individually displayed on my desktop, a hundred or more of them that I had been fiddling around with last night in export/import. However, I am hoping there is a way to do a backup on an external disk by just moving one folder, for example. Call me lazy, ha ha.
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ravencajun Zone 8b TX
14 years ago
I totally understand! I have never used that add on so am not familiar with it. If you just backed up your bookmarks would that also take care of those? Are they included in your bookmarks or separate?
biwako_of_abi
Original Author
14 years ago
Bookmarks and Scrapbook are different. I can back up Bookmarks easily following the path I gave in my first post. There is a file for Bookmarks inside the next stop after Profiles, which is v20fqq3t.default. I forgot to mention that last one. There is also a folder for Scrapbook inside v20fqq3t.default, but that folder contains a number of files, including "Backup" and several RDF files that appear to be individual backups but are just a meaningless list of figures when I click them, as well as a folder for "Data." "Backup" itself is also full of lines like the following:
RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:scrapbook:item20060912103442" NS8:id="20060912103442" NS8:type="" NS8:title="Scappy String Quilt Instructions" NS8:chars="UTF-8" NS8:comment="" NS8:icon="" NS8:source="http://home.pmt.org/~awalter/string.html"/

So I don't see how saving Backup would give me something to use in the event of a crash. Groan. Come to think of it, Roxio appears to insist on individual files rather than folders when I want to burn a disk, so maybe I'll have to export everything to the desktop and then laboriously transfer it to Roxio as a "project" and burn that. What gets me is that previously--maybe a long time ago--there was just one folder that I could transfer to a zip disk and from it open up FF again with all the scrapbook entries. Somewhere along the line that changed. I do find Scrapbook very useful because any Web page saved there is always there, along with its clickable links, even if the original page has been taken down.

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