Recover Deleted Bookmarks in Chrome on Your PC/Mac

When you update Chrome on computer, all the bookmarks may be gone.

How to restore Chrome bookmarks? According to recent data, Chrome is the most popular web browser around the world. Many people have Google Chrome on their computer, though they already have the pre-installed web browsers, like IE and Safari.

Find an awesome website? Many people will save it as a bookmark and access it directly next time. Bookmarks can be lost by mistake operation, update and other problems. In this tutorial, we are going to tell you how to recover deleted bookmarks Chrome.

• Part 1. The Easiest Way to Recover Chrome Bookmarks
• Part 2. Find and Restore Deleted Chrome History on the PC
• Part 3. Recover Deleted or Lost Chrome Bookmarks via Google History
• Part 4. Restore Chrome Bookmarks with DNS Cache
• Part 5. FAQs of Restoring Chrome Bookmarks

Part 1. The Easiest Way to Recover Chrome Bookmarks

It’s not easy to recover deleted bookmarks in Chrome one hundred successfully. If you want to find a way to recover Chrome bookmarks easily, Apeaksoft Data Recovery is your best choice . It will quickly scan your PC and collect those deleted Chrome bookmarks in a specific group for you. Moreover, many other types of files, such as project files, images, videos, and rare app data, can also be recovered.

Step 1 Launch Chrome bookmark recovery software

Free download and install the best Chrome bookmark recovery software when you find important bookmarks disappear from Google Chrome.

Locate to the data type area. To recover deleted bookmarks in Chrome, select Others. Then choose the location that saves the deleted bookmarks, for example, Local Disk C. After setting, you can click on the Scan button to trigger the scanning process.

Step 2Scan and find Chrome bookmarks

Preview bookmarks before recovery. When scanning is finished, go to the Others tab from the left-hand side, and then you can look at the bookmark file on the right pane.

If there are too many files, input bookmarks into the box at the top of the window and click on the Filter button to quickly locate it. Moreover, the Deep Scan function at the upper right corner of the window can scan the hard drive deeply and get back more data.

Step 3Restore Chrome bookmarks

Make sure to select the files titled with Bookmarks and click on the Recover button. On the popup dialog, select a destination and start restoring bookmarks in Chrome. When it is done, copy and paste the Bookmarks.BAK file to C:\User\[name]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default, and change its name to Bookmarks. Finally, open your Chrome and check whether your bookmarks are back. You can also transfer the bookmarks to another computer.

Part 2. Find and Restore Deleted Chrome History on the PC

Chrome saves your bookmarks in a file ended with BAK. Find it; you can restore deleted Chrome bookmarks and browse histories.

Recover Chrome bookmarks on Windows PCs

Step 1 Open This PC and go to C:\User\[name]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default.

Step 2 Type bookmarks into the search bar and press the Enter key. You will get two files titled Bookmarks and Bookmarks.bak. The bookmarks bak file contains the last browse histories.

Tip: If you do not see bookmarks bak file, go to the “View” tab on the top ribbon and turn on File name extensions.

Step 3 Make sure your Chrome is closed, rename the Bookmarks file to Bookmarks.1 and rename the Bookmarks.bak to Bookmarks.

Step 4 After that you can run Chrome, your bookmarks will be there.

Notice: In this method, you can find back your Chrome bookmarks. However, those extensions, such as Chrome screen recorder, and screenshot tools, will go forever, unless you have a Google account to sync them.

Recover bookmarks in Chrome on Mac

Step 1 Open Finder app, go to Macintosh HD > Users > [name] > Library > Application Support > Google > Chrome >Default. You will see the Bookmarks and Bookmarks.bak files.

Step 2 Copy and paste the two files to another location, delete the Bookmarks file and rename Bookmarks.bak to Bookmarks.

Step 3 Finally, reopen your Chrome and check if you restore Chrome bookmarks successfully.

Part 3. Recover Deleted or Lost Chrome Bookmarks via Google History

If you sign into your Google account on your Chrome, your bookmarks will go to Google History and you can recover bookmarks in Chrome easily.

Step 1 Open Google Home page in your browser and sign into the Google account that you used to save your browse histories.

Step 2 Click on the menu button at the upper right corner and then you will see a variety of Google services.

Step 3 Click My Account and wait for the page to open, scroll down to the bottom and click on Go To My Activity. The following page will show all your online activities on the Chrome browser.

Now, you can find the websites, and click on the links to recover Chrome bookmarks.

Note: Since this method can recover deleted Chrome bookmarks from your account activities, then if you delete bookmarks on iOS mobile devices, you can also recover them on other devices.

Part 4. Restore Chrome Bookmarks with DNS Cache

Another way to restore bookmarks in Chrome is the DNS cache. It is well-known that all our activities on the computer are saved as cache data. And DNS cache is dedicated to browsing activities in web browser. Of course, you can restore Chrome bookmarks via DNS cache.

Step 1Hold Winows + R to open Run dialog, input cmd into the box and press the Enter key to start a command prompt window..

Step 2Then type ipconfig /dislaydns and click the Enter key on your keyboard. Next, the websites that you accessed recently will show up and you can save them as bookmarks in Chrome.