Method 1: Data Synchronization
In the event that the Chrome browser you use with Google Account, to restore the bookmarks, it is enough to enter it and wait until the data synchronization is completed. Sometimes it may be necessary to do it manually. We have previously been told about all the nuances of the procedure in more detail in individual articles, references to which are given below.
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How to synchronize bookmarks in the browser Google Chrome
The solution described above will work only if adding bookmarks was carried out using the funds built into the web browser - the standard bookmark manager. If the third-party extension was used to save important sites, it will be necessary to install it from Chrome WebStore and also log in to your account. Once synchronization is completed, the data will be restored.
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Method 2: Data Transfer
In each web browser, and Google Chrome is no exception, there is a useful export function and import bookmarks as an HTML file. With it, you can restore the bookmarks after reinstalling the program in which the Google account was not used, and after the "moving" from one browser to another. About how it is done, we also wrote earlier in separate instructions.
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Method 3: Restore Bookmark File
Windows has the ability to restore previous versions of files. With it, you can return the bookmarks, but only if, after you delete or change, this data is no longer overwritten.
C: \ Users \ User_Name \ AppData \ Local \ Google \ Chrome \ User Data \ Default
- Copy the above address, open the "Explorer", for example, by pressing the "Win + E" keys, and insert the contents of the clipboard into its address bar. Replace the expression "user_name" to your username used in the operating system, and press "ENTER" or the right arrow to go to the right.
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Where is the bookmarks of Browser Google Chrome
- A folder with a Google Chrome web browser will be opened. Find a file with the name "Bookmarks" in it, click on it right-click and select "Restore the previous version".
- Restart the browser and check the presence of bookmarks - most likely they will be restored.
Method 4: Replacing the Bookmark File
Usually google chrome stores two versions of the file with bookmarks - old and new. In the previous decision we restored the first, here we will replace it with the second.
- To begin with, you must temporarily disable data synchronization in a web browser. To do this, follow the following:
- Through the program menu, go to "Settings".
- Under the description of your account, click on the Synchronization of Google Services.
- Next, select "Data Management for Synchronization".
- Install the marker opposite the "Configure Synchronization" option.
- Deactivate the switch located opposite the "Bookmark" items, then close the web browser.
- Using a system "Explorer", go to the folder where the browser data is stored. Do not forget to replace the username to your.
C: \ Users \ User_Name \ AppData \ Local \ Google \ Chrome \ User Data \ Default
- Check if there are "Bookmarks" and "Bookmarks.bak" files. The first contains an updated version of bookmark data, the second is the previous one.
Remember this nuance, select them and copy, and then move them to any convenient place on your computer.
Return to the folder with the web browser data, delete the file "Bookmarks", and "Bookmarks.bak" rename, deleting ".bak". After that, it will be perceived by the program as an actual version of the bookmarks.
- In Google Chrome, open the "Settings" and follow the steps that are specified in the first step of the current instruction, that is, turn on the deactivated synchronization parameter.
- Snooet Run the web browser - bookmarks must be restored.
If this solution does not work, return the original "Bookmarks" and "Bookmarks.bak" files in their original location.
Method 5: third-party programs
If none of the above solutions presented to return bookmarks in Google Chrome, you should contact specialized programs that provide data recovery. One of these is Recuva, created by CCleaner developers, we use it.
- Install the program to your PC and run it. In the first window, click on the "Next" button.
- Next, set the marker opposite the "All Files" parameter and click "Next" again.
- In the next window, check the "IN A SPECIFIC Location" item, after which insert the browser data address in the string below.) Or send it to it using the Browse button and the file manager opened. Click "Next" again.
- Click "Start" to start the deleted data search procedure.
- Expect until the check is completed, it usually takes no more than one minute.
- In the window that appears on the screen, find "Bookmarks" in the File List. In order to make it easier to do, sort the content by name.
Select the detected item and use the "Recover" button,
After that, specify the "folder overview" in the "Folder Review" path to save it.
- In most cases, the data recovery procedure takes a few seconds, after which the window shown below appears. Click it "OK" and go to the location selected in the previous step.
- Find a restored file there, select it and copy it there.
- Go to the Google Chrome data folder and insert it, agreeing on the data replacement if such a request appears.
- Restart the browser and check the presence of bookmarks - they will probably be restored.
The RecuVA program is an excellent data recovery tool, and to solve the task, its free version is fully suitable. If for some reason it does not suit you, read the article below and select analog.
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Restoration of bookmarks on mobile devices
On mobile devices with iOS / iPados and Android, the task of restoring bookmarks in Google Chrome has significantly fewer solutions than in the case of a PC version. The reason for this lies in the differences in operating systems and how work with data is implemented in each of them. You can return previously saved sites either by synchronization that you first need to be activated on the computer, and then in a mobile application, or, in other cases, first using one of the instructions presented above in the desktop version of the program, and then activating synchronization on both devices.
In applications for iPhone, iPad and Android, this is done in "Settings". The algorithm of action is practically no different from that of the PC and is shown in the image above.