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Mark Twain wrote:
>> And what volume do you keep that on ?
>>
>> Is it somewhere on the C: drive ?
>>
>> Where would it normally be located ?
>>
>>     Paul
> 
> Well it's on the FF sidebar when online. So 
> I don't know how to look that up? I also still
> don't have a clue why it disappeared? I've checked
> every folder just in case I accidentally moved it 
> with my mouse but I can't find it. Is there a way
> to search for it? What was that program you gave me
> to search for things?  (See why I need the folder?)
> 
> I also still need your assistance to detach the WD HD
> from the 8500.
> 
> Thanks,
> Robert

I have a suspicion you're referring to a folder
within the Bookmarks Manager.

In the first picture, is the Bookmarks Sidebar. To get this
in the old Firefox, you selected Customize and added the Sidebar
icon to the tool bar. Then clicked that to select Bookmarks Sidebar.
And that would appear on the left. There are two Bookmark Sidebars
in the picture. The left-hand one is Firefox 53. The right hand one
is Firefox 59 (Nightly compile). You can see the color scheme
changed around Firefox 57, and the image is that "flat" looking.

https://s7.postimg.org/f05kbgg0r/firefox53_vs_59.gif

In both pictures, you can see "BobsFolder" which is a
test folder I created for sorting my bookmarks. This could
be what you've done, sorted your bookmarks into categories.
Now, yours have disappeared, and the bookmark sidebar, or
the Bookmarks Manager (control-shift-B).

So the reason I'm showing both Sidebars, is to show you that
Firefox 59 (after Quantum) supports the bookmarks just the
same way as Firefox 53. The appearance is the same. I didn't
lose any bookmarks.

In addition, in Firefox 59, I did a "restore" of the bookmarks.
When I started Firefox 59, it started in a private profile, not
the same profile as Firefox 53. To "populate" the Sidebar and
bring in my bookmarks, I did a restore.

To do this, first I had to locate the location on the C: drive
where the Bookmark Backups are stored. That's in the bottom middle
of the following picture. And in this picture, I use the
Bookmark Manager to do a restore.

https://s7.postimg.org/7iwcwqix7/restore_bookmarks.gif

So when I restored bookmarks from Firefox 53, they worked.

*******

If your Sidebar appears damaged, you could use the Restore
feature, to move backward in time and use a previous bookmarks.
That's why the backups are there.

In addition, you can even create a backup of the current bookmarks.
Although in your case, they're probably pretty empty.

In any case, that second picture should show you both Backup (jsonlz4)
and Restore (from jsonlz4) files. And the menu shows the same dates
as the file folder I show in the bottom of the picture.

*******

To disconnect the WDC external drive.

1) Go to Disk Management.
2) Use the left-most square on the line for the WDC drive.
    Select "Offline" to put the drive offline.
3) Now, the Safely Remove for USB devices in the lower
    right hand corner of the screen should work.
    A confirmation dialog should appear indicating this time it worked.

This workaround has the side effect, that the next time the
WDC is connected, you'll have to:

1) Go to Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc)
2) Use the left-most square on the line for the WDC drive
    you plugged in. Select "Online".
3) Only now can you use the partitions on the WDC and
    make your backups.

The workaround solves the "busy NTFS TXF problem", for which
I don't have a real cure. I have caught Macrium using that
function, but I don't know why they bother with it. I had
a performance issue, did a little forensic work, and I could
see some TXF activity multiple times a second, slowing
down the data block writes to disk.

It's possible killing the Macrium service might fix it,
but I didn't try that :-) Too messy.

*******

I haven't looked at your pictures yet, and wanted to
write this first and forward it so you can get some
bookmarks without any more "Macrium fun" :-) With some
luck, there are probably enough bookmark backups, for
you to fix this using only what is on the C: drive already.

The only thing that's hard to navigate here, is finding
the Appdata folder which is hidden. You won't need to
try this, to use the Restore menu. This is only in case
you want to see this folder, for example, to check whether
all of these backups were destroyed. I don't know yet whether
there are actually any backups for you to use. So this
string is the general format for where Firefox stored
the Bookmark backups.

C:\Users\User
Name\Appdata\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\abcd1234.default\bookmarkbackups

You can try the following in Command Prompt as yourself.

    cd /d C:\Users\User Name\Appdata\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

    explorer .

and the File Explorer window that appears, might be
able to burrow below the Appdata folder. Substitute
your own account name, for my bogus "User Name" field.

I haven't tested that, and that might be easier
than fooling around with the folder view in File
Explorer so all the hidden stuff is unhidden.

    Paul
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