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Hi

I would like backup my Chrome bookmarks to a CD but don't know where the folders are located. Any ideas?

Thanks

Best answer - Blair (Googler) (Google Employee) Inside the "...\Chrome\User Data\Default\" directory are two files. "Bookmarks", and "Bookmarks.bak". One is for your current bookmarks, and the other one (with the .bak extension) signifies that it is a bookmarks backup, if anything goes wrong. Bookmarks.bak gets overwritten every time you close Chrome.

Bookmarks in Chrome exist as a virtual filesystem. Meaning, that all your bookmarks are really just stored in one file, but appear as an actual filesystem inside Chrome.
You only have to copy that file, and back it up somewhere. And if you want to recovery your bookmarks, simply copy/paste the "Bookmarks" file you backed-up, back in to the directory you took it from.

Chrome must be closed prior to doing this.

Hope this helps.

(and btw, try opening the "Bookmarks" file with a text editor like Notepad =])

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The C:\Users\username\Local mentioned above is a WINDOWS TEMP FILE location that can't be relied on for much of anything other than its intended function as a swap file bin. Files land there when Windows loads them into RAM so that the OS can page through them as needed while they're in use, but stuff swaps in and out in inexplicable ways so what's there at any given time is mostly useless except directly by the OS.

In Windows, the ...\Chrome\User Data\Default\ folder location is likely to be in C:\Program Files\Chrome\... although most programs can be "custom installed" to other places.

John