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Ace_boy2786
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Hi, my pc (I think the ssd/os) just quit on me, is there a way for me to build a new system (reformat) onto a new drive and either using the old drive (if accessable) or "the cloud" recover all my old tabs from that pc onto the new one? I had a list of tabs saved, but it hasn't been updated in a couple months (yes, I have a lot and can't remember them all).

I'm hopeing it's as simple as putting the old drive as a secondary drive and copying the "appdata" folder or something to the new pc.

System: windows 7 (yeah, I don't want to give it up) on evga mobo with i7-x990 cpu and maxed out ram. Samsung ssd (2.5"). Most all "personal data" is stored and accessed from my nas, just don't know how to do that for the tab hostory.

Hi, my pc (I think the ssd/os) just quit on me, is there a way for me to build a new system (reformat) onto a new drive and either using the old drive (if accessable) or "the cloud" recover all my old tabs from that pc onto the new one? I had a list of tabs saved, but it hasn't been updated in a couple months (yes, I have a lot and can't remember them all). I'm hopeing it's as simple as putting the old drive as a secondary drive and copying the "appdata" folder or something to the new pc. System: windows 7 (yeah, I don't want to give it up) on evga mobo with i7-x990 cpu and maxed out ram. Samsung ssd (2.5"). Most all "personal data" is stored and accessed from my nas, just don't know how to do that for the tab hostory.

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Well, I found the solution I was looking for (just need an up-to-date "restore point"). If you go to c/users/"user name"/appdata/mozilla/ and check the profile folders for one with alot of files take that and copy its contents into the profile folder in the new system and BOOM all your stuff back. Don't copy the profile folder itself names will probably be different and it won't work, i tried), just empty the new one of it contents and paste in the old files onto the new system.

As for recovering the data off my "bad" drive I don't know ow that yet, I had a backup from back in Feb '24 that I was able to restore, now I just need to figure out how to get the new tabs/files off the crashed drive.

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Well, I found the solution I was looking for (just need an up-to-date "restore point"). If you go to c/users/"user name"/appdata/mozilla/ and check the profile folders for one with alot of files take that and copy its contents into the profile folder in the new system and BOOM all your stuff back. Don't copy the profile folder itself names will probably be different and it won't work, i tried), just empty the new one of it contents and paste in the old files onto the new system.

As for recovering the data off my "bad" drive I don't know ow that yet, I had a backup from back in Feb '24 that I was able to restore, now I just need to figure out how to get the new tabs/files off the crashed drive.

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