These files are stored in your user's /Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/bookmarkbackups folder. Delete the ones you don't need and you may save a lot of space.
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Firefox stores backup copies of prior bookmark files, and these files can accumulate, taking up a fair amount of space. I found 129 files, the most recent being 300 KB. Deleting all the backup files saved about 40 MB in disk space.
These files are stored in your user's /Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/bookmarkbackups folder. Delete the ones you don't need and you may save a lot of space.
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Delete Firefox bookmark backups to save space
In my case they were in ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/xxxxxxxx.default/bookmarkbackups (where xxxxxxxx is an apparently random string of characters).
Delete Firefox bookmark backups to save space
If you find yourself needing to save 40MB, you have serious system maintenance problems. 40MB is a twentieth of a percent of a typical 80GB hard drive.
Delete Firefox bookmark backups to save space
a similar problem is due to spotlight indexing the profile folder, resulting in numerous bookmarks-n.html generated files. disabling indexing of the folder fixes the problem.
this kb article gives the details.
Delete Firefox bookmark backups to save space
Curious, I went to check my own folder. I see only 6 files, as if it's only keeping backups of the last 5 times I ran Firefox, plus today.
Delete Firefox bookmark backups to save space
I'm not so worried about my 5 backup files -- but why do I have *95* bookmark files, i.e. bookmarks-x.html, where x is a number between 1 and 95?
Delete Firefox bookmark backups to save space
Interestinly, I had a huge number of cached bookmark files, going back to the earliest version of Firefox. A side benefit I immediately noticed is that Firefox now launches like when it was first installed. It's launch time had slowed significantly, and I assume it's because of how firefox read the files. In any case, launch times are on par with Safari again.
Delete Firefox bookmark backups to save space
I've been aware of this bizarre behavior for some time. I'm a super-heavy Firefox user, my 'bookmarks.html' item is now running 2.8 MB, there are currently over 200 of these numbered backup-items, and the folder is running over 500 MB. Time to clean it out again...
Got successful rid of this folder!
I replaced the folder with a bogus 5k text-file - named "bookmarkbackups" and set the "protected" flag in the file information dialog. Worked.
Delete Firefox bookmark backups to save space
You can also set up an Automator Workflow to delete file(s)/folder(s) which recur with the same name(s) in the same path. Such Workflow, when saved in your Library/Workflows/Applications/Finder becomes available through the Automator contextual menu in the Finder. You can use, for example, 'Delete Items' found in Delete Files.action at:
http://homepage.mac.com/jrmiddle/Scripts/
Delete Firefox bookmark backups to save space
Hamid, good idea. Thanks!
Delete Firefox bookmark backups to save space
It's better to set 'browser.bookmarks.max_backups' option in about:config page to 0. Firefox won't backup bookmarks anymore after this. |
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