Did you lose your bookmarks in the 0.5 to 0.6 upgrade? Our super summer intern, Anthony, came up with an easy solution to get your original bookmarks into your freshly-upgraded Songbird.

Step 1: Quit the Songbird application.

Step 2: Navigate to your OLD Profile directory. Your profile location depends on your OS, so here’s a platform-specific breakdown of profile locations:

• Windows XP:
  C:\Documents and Settings\<your-username>\Application Data\Songbird1\Profiles\<gobbledygook>.default\
• Windows Vista:
  C:\Users\<your-username>\AppData\Songbird1\Profiles\<gobbledygook>.default\
• Linux:
  ~/.songbird1/Profiles/<gobbledygook>.default/
• Mac OS X:
  ~/Library/Application Support/Songbird1/Profiles/<gobbledygook>.default/

(The gobbledygook is different on every computer. It’s just a jumble of letters and numbers.)

Step 3: Make a copy of the file named service-pane.rdf.

Step 4: Navigate to your NEW Songbird profile. It’s in the exact same location as the old profile, but the directory is named “songbird2″ (instead of “songbird1″).

Step 5: There is a file in here named service-pane.rdf. Rename it to ORIG-service-pane.rdf.

Step 6: Move the copy of your old service-pane.rdf file into your new profile directory.

Step 7: Start Songbird. At this point, your old bookmarks should be restored!

Note: This process will only restore your bookmarks (not the rest of your user data from previous Songbird versions.) We moved the profile directory in 0.6 because we made some major changes from 0.5 — it just works out that the bookmarks file is safe to copy!