My firefox crashed and I lost all my history, bookmarks are still there, is there a way to restore my history?
Out of the blue firefox crashed for no reason and it deleted months worth of history, is there any way to restore it. I heard something about the places.sqlite file but dont know how to restore from it.
can anybody help?
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Did you check whether Windows has shadow copies of places.sqlite as part of a System Restore point like I posted above?
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Do you have an older copy of places.sqlite ?
If you have ever used the refresh feature in Firefox then you may have a "Old Firefox Data" folder on the desktop.
You can check in Windows Explorer if there is a previous version of the places.sqlite file available.
- right-click: Properties -> Previous Versions
- https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/search?query=Previous-versions-of-files
See also System Restore Explorer
Look on your desktop. Do you see a folder called; Old Firefox?
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-run-firefox-when-profile-missing-inaccessible
Type about:profiles<enter> in the address bar. How many profiles are listed? How many should be there?
No theres isnt a folder on the desktop, i file searched the places.sqlite file and the only ones that appeared were in the roaming profiles firefox location :(
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Did you check whether Windows has shadow copies of places.sqlite as part of a System Restore point like I posted above?
cor-el said
Did you check whether Windows has shadow copies of places.sqlite as part of a System Restore point like I posted above?
Life saver. Did the right click restore from previous version. Didnt know windows had such a function.
Thanks