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import bookmarks to new profile

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AnonymousUser
AnonymousUser

My firefox couldnt open anymore so i had to create a new profile... now i want to import my bookmarks from my old profile BUT i can't access this profile.... firefox refuse to open if i launch this profile.... how do i get my bookmarks from my old profile ??

can i also recuperate my saved login informations? (automatically fill out password case on websites where i chosen to "remember password")

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Every time Firefox opened

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Opera/9.62 (Windows NT 5.1; U; fr-CA) Presto/2.1.1

My firefox couldnt open anymore so i had to create a new profile... now i want to import my bookmarks from my old profile BUT i can't access this profile.... firefox refuse to open if i launch this profile.... how do i get my bookmarks from my old profile ?? can i also recuperate my saved login informations? (automatically fill out password case on websites where i chosen to "remember password") == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == ... == == User Agent == Opera/9.62 (Windows NT 5.1; U; fr-CA) Presto/2.1.1

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cor-el
cor-el

See: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Backing_up_and_restoring_bookmarks_-_Firefox http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox

AnonymousUser
AnonymousUser Question owner

i tryed to import my bookmarks from this file:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrateur\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\x2gp6svi.default\bookmarkbackups\bookmarks.html

but it didnt work...

how can i import the bookmarks from my bookmarks folder ?? it says in the wiki it is impossible under firefox3

so what can i do...

the-edmeister
the-edmeister

The bookmarks.html file isn't active in Firefox 3+ versions, unless you changed a hidden preference. You need to restore one of the backups in the \bookmarkbackups\ folder in the old Profile, one of the JSON files in that folder.

AnonymousUser
AnonymousUser Question owner

and how do i restore a json file ?

the-edmeister
the-edmeister

Did you read this? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Backing_up_and_restoring_bookmarks_-_Firefox#Restoring_bookmarks_from_backup