# How do I find my bookmarks on my external drive or current hard drive? **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [February 24, 2022, 10:14pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/how-do-i-find-my-bookmarks-on-my-external-drive-or-current-hard-drive/346772 "2022-02-24T22:14:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![UncleCarl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/85e7bf/32.png) [@UncleCarl](https://community.brave.app/u/UncleCarl)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 10:14pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/how-do-i-find-my-bookmarks-on-my-external-drive-or-current-hard-drive/346772/1 "2022-02-24T22:14:39Z")
Hello all. I’m really hoping someone can help me. I’ve had to reload windows on my Win 10, 64-bit laptop. My brave bookmarks were my life: now I can’t find any of them. I ‘thought’ I had brave synced, but I’m not too confident I did. Either way, how do I find and import my bookmarks from either my external backup drive or possibly from my current hard drive? My backup drive is a Seagate. I know they have to be backed up somewhere but I can’t figure it out. Thanks to anyone who can help me. ---
**Author:** ![Mattches](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/mattches/32/25189_2.png) [@Mattches](https://community.brave.app/u/Mattches)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 11:21pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/how-do-i-find-my-bookmarks-on-my-external-drive-or-current-hard-drive/346772/2 "2022-02-24T23:21:56Z")
@UncleCarl, Did you manually back up your bookmarks (`Menu —> Bookmarks manager --> Export bookmarks...`)? ---
**Author:** ![UncleCarl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/85e7bf/32.png) [@UncleCarl](https://community.brave.app/u/UncleCarl)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 1:04am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/how-do-i-find-my-bookmarks-on-my-external-drive-or-current-hard-drive/346772/3 "2022-02-25T01:04:49Z")
No, I just back up my laptop hard drive. Nothing specifically done about bookmarks. ---
**Author:** ![289wk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/439d5e/32.png) [@289wk](https://community.brave.app/u/289wk)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 10:56pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/how-do-i-find-my-bookmarks-on-my-external-drive-or-current-hard-drive/346772/4 "2022-02-25T22:56:30Z")
@UncleCarl , The “Bookmarks” and “Bookmarks.bak” files are somewhere a sub-directory (might be the “Default” folder within): > C:\Users\your\_windows\_username\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\ So my guess is, that you would be searching around on the backup hard drive, for a similar directory path. If you are really determined to explore and willing to study: > [@Lost bookmarks on windows reset that keeps files](https://community.brave.app/t/lost-bookmarks-on-windows-reset-that-keeps-files/344876/2): > > @alexkougianos , Careful study of the following . . . you might succeed: – Where the author wrote (given that his article pertains to Google Chrome), “the ‘User Data’ folder located under”: C:\Users\your\_windows\_username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\ you would use: C:\Users\your\_windows\_username\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\ The author then wrote: The process is easy; navigate to the User Data folder in Windows Explorer, right click on it and get the properties. Go to … ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/brave/original/3X/1/8/182067f3480d1a5e7aea5ae3131b116ca1ef7918.png) [@system](https://community.brave.app/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 10:56pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/how-do-i-find-my-bookmarks-on-my-external-drive-or-current-hard-drive/346772/5 "2022-04-26T22:56:43Z")
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