# Still can't recover my bookmarks **URL:** \ **Category:** Desktop Support\ **Tags:** linux\ **Created:** [January 9, 2019, 5:35am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/still-cant-recover-my-bookmarks/41980 "2019-01-09T05:35:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [January 16, 2019, 8:51pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/still-cant-recover-my-bookmarks/41980/21 "2019-01-16T20:51:15Z")
I think it’s time to go the nuclear route. Try the following: 1. **Make sure you have a copy of your session-store-1 file stored safely somewhere**. In fact, to be safe go ahead and copy that entire folder (holding that file). 2. Uninstall _everything_ Brave related. Everything - new build, old builds and browsing data for both. If you still see Brave directories floating around - delete em. 3. Now, once Brave has been wiped, go [here to download a 0.24x version of Brave (Muon)](https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/releases/tag/v0.24.0dev) 4. Install it, navigate to your .config/brave path, and replace the session-store-1 file found there with the copy of your old session file you saved in step 1. 5. Relaunch Brave - you may even want to reboot your machine - and check to see if your bookmarks appear (they should). From there, if they appear you can follow the same steps above to export BMs and import into Brave Core: > [@Mattches](#): > > If you **DO** see your bookmarks in the old Brave (yay!), do the following: > > 1. Open the main menu > 2. Select `Bookmarks --> Export Bookmarks` > 3. Choose a destination easy to find and save your bookmarks there as an `HTML` file (this should be done by default unless you change the file type manually). > 4. Close Brave Muon and open Brave Core (new version, hopefully your updated v0.58.21 version) > 5. Navigate to `Settings --> Bookmarks --> Import Bookmarks and Settings...` > 6. Select `Bookmarks HTML File` and choose the newly exported HTML file from Muon. ---
**Author:** ![kdnr2374](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ebca7d/32.png) [@kdnr2374](https://community.brave.app/u/kdnr2374)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2019, 10:31pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/still-cant-recover-my-bookmarks/41980/22 "2019-01-16T22:31:09Z")
No, they’re still not there ---
**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:** [January 17, 2019, 12:00am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/still-cant-recover-my-bookmarks/41980/23 "2019-01-17T00:00:46Z")
I was just about to respond to your post about the `.deb` file not working then it disappeared. Did you get it to run/install? ---
**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:** [January 17, 2019, 12:14am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/still-cant-recover-my-bookmarks/41980/24 "2019-01-17T00:14:56Z")
If so, just to confirm, you replaced the `session-store-1` file in the new .config/brave folder created after installing the `.deb` file, correct? Also, did you happen to save the whole `.config/brave` folder, or just the session file? EDIT: Also cc @sampson for backup ---
**Author:** ![sampson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/sampson/32/7_2.png) [@sampson](https://community.brave.app/u/sampson)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 12:24am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/still-cant-recover-my-bookmarks/41980/25 "2019-01-17T00:24:39Z")
@kdnr2374 Can you open the `session-store-1` file with a text editor and do a search for `"bookmarks":` in the contents. If you find it, you should see some text that follows which includes familiar website addresses; these are your bookmarks. Please confirm that this works, and we can proceed to retrieve these bookmarks. ---
**Author:** ![kdnr2374](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ebca7d/32.png) [@kdnr2374](https://community.brave.app/u/kdnr2374)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 8:46pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/still-cant-recover-my-bookmarks/41980/26 "2019-01-17T20:46:43Z")
Yes. I eventually managed to install it via the terminal. I replaced the file, didn’t work, and then replaced the whole folder just in case, but it did not work ---
**Author:** ![kdnr2374](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ebca7d/32.png) [@kdnr2374](https://community.brave.app/u/kdnr2374)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 8:56pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/still-cant-recover-my-bookmarks/41980/27 "2019-01-17T20:56:20Z")
It does appear, but it’s at the very end of the file and nothing follows after that. It appears like this: “bookmarks”:{},“tabs”:} ---
**Author:** ![sampson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/sampson/32/7_2.png) [@sampson](https://community.brave.app/u/sampson)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/still-cant-recover-my-bookmarks/41980/28 "2019-01-22T19:02:50Z")
@kdnr2374 Apologies, but that suggests there are no bookmarks. Something appears to have corrupted the file, or the entire Brave folder (causing a new profile to be created). Do you recall also losing history, extensions, or stored passwords? ---
**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:** [March 19, 2019, 10:47pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/still-cant-recover-my-bookmarks/41980/30 "2019-03-19T22:47:12Z")
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**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:** [March 19, 2019, 10:47pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/still-cant-recover-my-bookmarks/41980/31 "2019-03-19T22:47:15Z")
Closed in favor of “master” issue below. Even if you’ve already reported this issue before – reply here with some details about what did (or did not) get imported when they tried using the importer if you’d like to help us get this issue resolved: > [@Built in Importer doesn't import data correctly](https://community.brave.app/t/built-in-importer-doesnt-import-data-correctly/49622): > > Description Many users have noted that the built in importer used to [import browsing data from other browsers](https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360019782291-How-do-I-import-or-export-browsing-data-) doesn’t always function as intended. This issue is seemingly not dependent on platform, browser being imported from, or browsing data being imported. I’ve created this topic to capture user reports in order to help reveal any common links between them so that we can solve the underlying issue. What we would like to know Given that this issue doesn’t seem to have any (obvious) common … [Previous page](https://community.brave.app/t/still-cant-recover-my-bookmarks/41980.md?page=1)