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If you do find yourself trying to manually recover data from the Default/Preferences or Default/Bookmarks files, thereвЂ™s an app called вЂњSublimeвЂќ which I highly recommend (google вЂњMac Sublime DownloadвЂќ) which is a text editor for developers, and it has some features that can make JSON more readable. Extremely tedious to do manually, but if youвЂ™re not a programmer thatвЂ™s the best you can hope for. Just drag and drop the Bookmarks file on to TextEdit and it will open as a plain text file and you can skim through it and copy URLs so you can re-bookmark them again. If you donвЂ™t, you can still read the Bookmarks file contents and manually recover bookmarked URLs from it. If you have some programming skills, the Bookmarks file is repairable. ~/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default/Last Tabs ~/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default/Last Session ItвЂ™s also safe to delete these, as they are useless after multiple crashes: ~/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default/Preferences ~/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default/Bookmarks Try removing either or both of these files: (donвЂ™t delete them - just move them to a temp folder on your desktop) Then go into the Brave-Browser folder and click on the вЂњDefaultвЂќ folder. ~/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser

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Make a safety of the entire prefs folder: (right-click and choose вЂњcompress Brave-BrowserвЂќ to make a ZIP backup):

I found out though that it has to do something withe the following folder: In the meantime, backup your bookmarks regularly (or keep snapshot backups of your system so you can just restore the entire preferences folder from a time prior to the latest crash). The bottom line is, when Brave crashes or quits due to a locked up web page, or for any other reason, it routinely corrupts its own Preferences and Bookmarks to the point where the app wonвЂ™t launch anymore.

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You have to know how to read JSON and perhaps use a language like Python as I did to evaluate and debug the JSON to find the problems in the file. But if you donвЂ™t have a backup of the bookmarks, itвЂ™s can be difficult to fix the bookmarks file. The only thing that works at this point is to regularly make a backup of your bookmarks by exporting them from the bookmarks manager page, then itвЂ™s fairly simple to just re-import the bookmarks if you otherwise have to trash the Bookmarks preference file and/or all of your preferences. IвЂ™ve been through this three times now where I had to rebuild/restore my bookmarks.

When either the Defaults/Bookmarks or Defaults/Preferences files get corrupted, Brave will crash on launch. Quit Brave, presumably while there is a problem with a web page, resulting in what I assume to be an improper shutdown by the browser.ДЄctual Result (gifs and screenshots are welcome!): Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary): 1. Brave Browser bookmarks corrupted again Desktop SupportДЄ web page (tab) locked up (вЂњthis page is not responding exit/reloadвЂќ).

Trash prefs for textedit app