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Firefox update lost all passwords and bookmarks

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dmnorris7
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Updated Firefox to latest version and now all passwords and bookmarks are gone!!! I read and tried a lot of different things with the profile folders and about:profiles, etc. NOTHING has worked so far. Why is it so hard to fix these things that should not have been lost just from updating. I do not use AVG or have a login.json.corrupt file.

Updated Firefox to latest version and now all passwords and bookmarks are gone!!! I read and tried a lot of different things with the profile folders and about:profiles, etc. NOTHING has worked so far. Why is it so hard to fix these things that should not have been lost just from updating. I do not use AVG or have a login.json.corrupt file.

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FredMcD
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Look on your desktop. Do you see a folder called; Old Firefox? Look inside. Look for the folder with the latest creation date.

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

FredMcD
FredMcD
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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-run-firefox-when-profile-missing-inaccessible

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox#Navigating_to_the_profile_folder

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles


Type about:profiles<enter> in the address bar. How many profiles are listed? How many should be there? Also, open the profile folder in your file explorer.