My computer has turned off when I was using google chrome and it made my bookmarks to disappear ; there is a bookmarks.bak file in user data folder that the extension of it will be erased if this happens and you can restore your bookmarks by manually adding the extension ; I didn't knew that bookmarks are gone so I used the program as I always used to do and saved some bookmarks which made the file overwrite . hopefully I was able to access a TMP file named bookmarks_something.TMP through a data recovery software ; the modification date and file size indicates that it is the file I'm looking for , but the problem is I can't read the file due to encoding or force the program ( Google chrome ) use the file to restore the session automatically .
is there anyway to find encoding or any other thing to get my bookmarks back ?
I opened the Google chrome and copied the file to the chrome folder then unplugged the power and hoped to make the program use TMP file and show me restore button but it didn't work .
