Where are Google Chrome bookmarks stored? You’ll learn Chrome bookmarks location in PC and we’ll show you how to export/import bookmarks and how to recover lost Chrome bookmarks.
Google Chrome allows us to bookmark the websites we visit the most frequently so that we can easily access them without having to type in the address each time. You may have added many Chrome bookmarks. But do you know where your Chrome bookmarks are kept?
Hence, in this article, we'll show you where to find Google Chrome bookmarks on Windows and Mac PC. Moreover, we will demonstrate how to export Google Chrome bookmarks and the easiest approach to dealing with missing Chrome bookmarks.
For both Windows and Mac, there are two types of bookmark files: Bookmarks and Bookmarks.bak. The "Bookmarks" file includes your current bookmarks, whereas the "Bookmarks.bak" file is a backup of the most recent bookmark backup taken when you last launched Google Chrome.
The files are kept in different locations on different devices, and some of them are not stored as separate bookmarks, so finding the Chrome bookmark file may be difficult; nonetheless, all bookmarks are stored in one file.
We'll show you where to find Chrome bookmarks on a Windows Computer. Your Google bookmarks, extensions, and caches are saved in a local folder on your computer by default. Usually, the storage path is:
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
If you are using a Mac, you can locate the bookmark folder on your computer in this path:
Users/username/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default
Don't forget to replace "username" with your computer's username. If you're using a different profile, replace "Default" with the name of your Chrome profile.
If you stored some important bookmarks for your study and work, we suggest you back up them previously. And you can import them when there’s something wrong with your Chrome bookmarks.
Some users find their bookmarks disappear after Chrome or system update. Thus, to avoid data loss, you can export them to another location.
Step 1. Launch Chrome and click on the menu (three vertical dots) button. Then, select Bookmarks > Bookmark manager.
Step 2. Tap on the Organize position in the upper right corner and choose Export bookmarks.
Step 3. Then, specify a location to store your exported bookmarks (the exported bookmarks would be saved as an HTML file).
To migrate Chrome bookmarks to a new computer, copy the exported bookmark file to the destination device and then follow the instructions below.
Step 1. Run Google Chrome on the new computer and click Settings.
Step 2. Choose Bookmarks and tap on Import bookmarks and settings.
Step 3. Open the drop-down menu of Import bookmarks and settings to select Bookmarks HTML File. After that, click on Choose File to add the bookmark export file and press Open > Done.
After you know where Chrome bookmarks are stored on your computer, now you can easily find them on your device. But if you erased your Chrome bookmarks accidentally, or the bookmarks disappeared for some system errors, you may use the excellent program AOMEI FastRecovery to recover missing Chrome bookmarks.
Via the built-in widget "Recover Data", you can simply recover the most recent Chrome backup files. This easy-to-use tool has more than a decade of expertise in the field of data recovery, designed using powerful algorithm technology.
Step 1. Install and launch AOMEI FastRecovery. Choose the exact partition or disk where your data lost and click Scan.
Step 2. Then, the recovery tool start to scan and search. lt will execute the “Quickly Scan" first for finding your deleted data fast, and then execute the “Deep Scan" for searching other lost data.
Step 3. Once the scan is completed, all deleted files, recycle bins and other missing files will be displayed. Please select the file you would like to recover and then click "Recover".
Step 4. Then, select a folder path to save your recovered files.
Step 5. Wait patiently for this process of recovering ends.
In this article, we addressed the subject of where are Google Chrome bookmarks stored. We also provide some techniques if you want to back up your Chrome bookmarks or move your bookmarks to a different machine.