Importing Chrome bookmarks from HDD

Question

My old laptop crashed and I removed the perfectly working hard drive from it and plugged it into a new machine to transfer files.

However, I cannot seem to find any of my bookmarks from Chrome to transfer.

I've seen that the way to do this is by by finding the "C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default" directory, but I can't seem to find it anywhere.

Here is exactly what I get when I plug the hard drive in:

And here under the user I'd like to import the bookmarks from, there is no "AppData" folder anywhere.

Is there anyway of recovering the bookmarks?

Answer 1

Enable show hidden files, then you'll be able to see the folders (in your case Appdata).

You can do this by going into the View tab in Windows Explorer(see picture) or,

Click Start, type Show hidden and click on the first result:

Check the highlighted option, click Apply>OK.

Answer 2

Where does Chrome save its bookmarks?

Wondering where your Chrome bookmarks are stored? If you want to make a copy of your bookmarks we recommend you export them as an HTML file which can then easily be imported into other browsers. You can do this by following these instructions:

• Click the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar.
• Select Bookmarks.
• Select Bookmark manager.
• Click the Organize menu in the manager.
• Select Export bookmarks.

Chrome will export the bookmarks as an HTML file

Tip: You can use a simple text editor program to open this file

However, if you're just wondering where they are on your Windows computer, they are located in

...\Chrome\User Data\Default\Bookmarks

Full extensions might look like

C:\Documents and Settings\<USER NAME>\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Bookmarks

or

C:\Users\USER NAME\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default

Source Google Chrome Bookmarks Location