Bookmarking basics

How do you recover accidentally deleted bookmarks in Brave browser?

Restore the automatic backup file `Bookmarks.bak` from your Brave User Data folder before closing and reopening the browser.

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The Local Backup Window in Chromium

Brave continuously updates a local file named Bookmarks in your user profile directory, maintaining a previous state copy named Bookmarks.bak. This backup file is overwritten each time Brave launches.

The 3-Step File Recovery Method

  1. Close Brave immediately to avoid overwriting the backup.
  2. Open your system user data directory (~/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default/ on Mac or %LOCALAPPDATA%\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default on Windows).
  3. Delete the corrupted Bookmarks file and rename Bookmarks.bak to Bookmarks. Relaunch Brave.