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Perform the same steps listed above to locate the “Bookmarks.bak” file on the new computer.

Remove the USB jump drive and place it in the computer on which you will be copying the file to.

Open the USB jump drive, right click in space, and select Paste.

Right click on the “Bookmarks.bak” file and select Copy.

Insert a USB jump drive into the computer on which you will be copying the file from.

In order to move this file to a new computer perform the following steps.

“Bookmarks.bak” is the file the Chrome browser uses to know which bookmarks to display.

Select Terminal near the top left hand corner of the window and select Quit.

Once Terminal opens, type “chflags nohidden ~/Library”.

Near the top of the window, just to the right of where it says “Finder,” select Go.

Happily, we were able to move the bookmarks file to the new computer successfully allowing the user to see their bookmarks as they did on their old computer. Following is a list of steps outlining how we made our way to the bookmarks file and what we did with it once we found it. We needed a backdoor into the Chrome bookmarks. Knowing that you can export/import Chrome bookmarks we attempted to login to their old Macbook, but were unable to open the Chrome browser. We were in the process of assigning new laptops to teachers at a school and came across one user who was not able to see all their bookmarks once logged in to Google Chrome. We ran into this the other day and this is what worked for us…