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I repaired my install of winXPpro and I think I lost all my FF saved passwords and login information. Can I find my info using a hdd undelete program? What filename do I look for?

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Quartzforce
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Can I use an undelete program to recover my FireFox saved login and password information? What filename would I try to search for and where in the directory structure would I look?

Can I use an undelete program to recover my FireFox saved login and password information? What filename would I try to search for and where in the directory structure would I look?

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TonyE
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You need two files for the passwords, key3.db and signons.sqlite (that file os for Firefox 3.5 and above), those 2 files must be kept together for passwords to work. Those files are stored in the profile folder, for details of how to find it see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox

If those files did not exist and you ran Firefox, it would automatically create new copies. The username and password not remembered article may be of use to you as well.