Firefox refreshed, my old profile says places.sqlite.corrupt and I can't get bookmarks
Firefox crashed while and refreshed itself. It created an "old firefox data" folder on my desktop. I thought I followed directions correctly, I deleted the profile information in my new firefox program (appdata). and i copied pasted the old firefox data (desktop folder) into its place. When I restarted firefox, it reopened all my tabs that were open when it originally crashed. So I thought everything was great. Then I noticed my bookmarks are missing, and the toolbar was empty. My history file is also empty. When I looked at my profile I found I have places.sqlite.corrupt file. I found a website that talked about downloading a program to fix places.sqlite, but I am not a programmer and I don't understand how to do that. I don't want to make things worse so I'm leaving it alone.
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It is possible that the places.sqlite got corrupted by the crash and can't be used. You would have to restore a backup from the bookmarkbackups folder on the desktop. That way you can restore the bookmarks, but will lose the history (there is no history backup).
You can check for problems with the places.sqlite database file in the Firefox profile folder.
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Bookmarks+not+saved#w_fix-the-bookmarks-file
- Places Maintenance: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/places-maintenance/
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Chosen Solution
It is possible that the places.sqlite got corrupted by the crash and can't be used. You would have to restore a backup from the bookmarkbackups folder on the desktop. That way you can restore the bookmarks, but will lose the history (there is no history backup).
You can check for problems with the places.sqlite database file in the Firefox profile folder.
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Bookmarks+not+saved#w_fix-the-bookmarks-file
- Places Maintenance: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/places-maintenance/
I had to restore a bookmark backup. Thank you
You're welcome.