Well, I did a dumb thing today that will probably cost me a lot of time. I accidentally deleted most of my bookmarks.

I use Google Chrome as my usual browser. (Maybe the same thing could have happened with any browser.) I have the bookmarks toolbar permanently displayed. A dozen or so of my most frequently used bookmarks are spread out across the toolbar. On the far left of my toolbar was a folder. Inside that folder were about 20 sub-folders. Inside those folders were all my other bookmarks—hundreds of them.

What I meant to do was click on the main folder to open it. What I think I accidentally did instead was to drag and drop the folder somewhere off the toolbar. It may have had something to do with my cat walking across my lap at the time, attracted by the smell of the bowl of cereal I was holding in my left hand while I operated the mouse with my right hand. Anyway, whatever clumsy thing I did made that main folder disappear. I don't know where it went. It's not on my desktop. I suspect it didn't go anywhere; it just got deleted. I doubt that there's any way to get it back. I don't see an "undo" button anywhere.

I probably do have backups of some of my bookmarks on another browser. But before I try the export/import thing, I thought I'd ask for suggestions. Got any?

By the way, I'm away from home right now, using my mother-in-law's computer, so whatever you suggest, I won't be able to try it for real until Saturday. I suppose I can experiment with this computer, though. I have Chrome installed here, too.