Chrome’s bookmark manager doesn’t have an Undo option. If your finger slips, you could delete an entire folder full of bookmarks with no obvious way to recover them. If you’ve made a backup with the export option, you could import the backup – but the backup may already be out of date.
First thing’s first: Don’t close and reopen Chrome. If Chrome is already closed, leave it closed. Chrome saves a single backup of your bookmarks file, and it overwrites the backup each time you launch Chrome.
Launch Windows Explorer and plug the following location into its address bar, replacing “NAME” with the name of your Windows user account:
C:\Users\NAME\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
The folder contains two bookmark files – Bookmarks and Bookmarks.bak. Bookmarks.bak is the most recent backup, taken when you last opened your browser.
If you don’t see the .bak file extension and just see two files named Bookmarks, click the Organize menu and select “Folder and search options.”
In the Folder Options window, click over...