recover profile
157 uglified firefox so I downgraded to 156. I lost my entire profile. How do I recover it
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Paul said
If you do not have a backup of your profile, it may not be possible to restore it in Firefox.
upon further research myself, directory in %appdata% contains all past profiles hidden away from firefox UI -- the entire 20 gigabytes of it -- meaning, it didn't delete them.
Thanks for not only being unhelpful, but misleading as well.
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Hi
Do you have a backup of your profile or your data synced to another copy of Firefox?
Paul said
Hi Do you have a backup of your profile or your data synced to another copy of Firefox?
no, which is why I'm asking in the first place, assuming firefox wasn't stupid enough to nuke itself because of downgrade
If you do not have a backup of your profile, it may not be possible to restore it in Firefox.
so it was stupid enough to nuke itself. lessons learned: never update
Updating Firefox should normally for most people be fine. If you had taken a backup of the profile with Firefox closed, uninstalled Firefox, installed the older version, then manually added files from the saved profile (again with Firefox closed), it may have worked.
well it's a shame someone had already decided to take the extra effort to deliberately destroy profile data upon detecting a downgrade just to ruin my day.
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Paul said
If you do not have a backup of your profile, it may not be possible to restore it in Firefox.
upon further research myself, directory in %appdata% contains all past profiles hidden away from firefox UI -- the entire 20 gigabytes of it -- meaning, it didn't delete them.
Thanks for not only being unhelpful, but misleading as well.
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