Guides on exporting, importing, backing up, and cleaning up your Chrome bookmarks.
Chrome deletes bookmarks for good. Bookmark Maestro now keeps every deletion for 30 days — made here, in Chrome's own manager, by another extension, or by sync — and can put it back where it was, and undo edits, moves, sorts and imports too. This is exactly how it works, when it records, what it can restore, and what it deliberately cannot.
Chrome has no recycle bin for bookmarks. Four things make them disappear — an accidental delete, a cleanup that took too much, a sync that spread a deletion to every device, a lost profile — and each has a different fix. Here is the triage, the one file that helps until Chrome's next write, and the second bookmark file a signed-in Chrome keeps that has no backup at all.
Every duplicate-bookmark tool deletes the extras. Almost none will tell you which copy it keeps. Here's how to find duplicates in Chrome — including the http/https and www pairs most scans miss — and the rule that decides which one survives.
Years of saved links means years of saved utm_source, fbclid and mc_eid. Here's how to clean tracking parameters out of your Chrome bookmarks — safely, with a preview and an undo.
Every major tracking parameter in one table — who plants it, what it tracks, and whether it's safe to strip. The reference behind our URL cleaner.
Chrome only exports bookmarks as HTML. Here's how to export your Chrome bookmarks to CSV, Markdown, or JSON — machine-readable, portable files you can open in a spreadsheet, a notes app, or a script.
Chrome has no undo for bulk bookmark deletes. Here's how to back up your Chrome bookmarks to a file you own — the built-in way, plus how to back up just the folders you care about.
A step-by-step guide to importing bookmarks into Chrome — the built-in way, plus how to import an HTML file into the exact folder you choose without scrambling your existing bookmarks.
Learn how to export Chrome bookmarks — the built-in way, plus how to export only the folders or links you choose, for backup, sharing, and migration.
