Need help to locate backed up Firefox profile to restore after Windows and Firefox re-install
Prior to getting some desktop PC upgrades that required a new install of Windows 11 and a new install of Firefox, I backed up my entire PC (yea!).
Now that I have re-installed Firefox, I see that I have none of my saved bookmarks and so I want to restore the Firefox profile - all of it or at least the bookmarks.
I have tried following the Firefox instructions for this, but am apparently not doing it right.
I can't seem to locate the bookmarks file, for starters, in my backed up files. I find the profile but I don't find anything like places.sqlite.
Can someone help me so that I am locating the right (and complete) files, copying them correctly, and then switching to the new/old profile correctly?
Thanks in advance.
الحل المُختار
Does your backup show this path:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox
AppData is a hidden folder, and the backup software might have preserved that attribute. You can set Windows to show hidden files and folders using the steps in the following article:
If you were looking in Local instead of Roaming then make sure to look in Roaming for the good stuff.
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To do it right one would've had the Browser up and running in the prior setup to backup the data/profile/bookmark so one can restore it back. If those instructions weren't used this make it harder to restore since this is only a user help forum there not a person that is one demand that can do that now.
If these steps where not used it makes restore much harder and maybe impossible now.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/966133 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1381158 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile
Some of steps should've been used before reinstalling the O/S.
الحل المُختار
Does your backup show this path:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox
AppData is a hidden folder, and the backup software might have preserved that attribute. You can set Windows to show hidden files and folders using the steps in the following article:
If you were looking in Local instead of Roaming then make sure to look in Roaming for the good stuff.
Refs:
jscher2000,
Thank you, a million and one times!
You nailed it! I was looking at the Local sub-folder instead of the Roaming sub-folder.
Fixed!!!
Thanks so very much.