How do I restore firefox history?
I had set my macbook to shutdown after an hour while I was uploading a file with two desktops open through mission control. I had shutdown firefox before the comp shutdown and everything was fine. when i started the computer and firefox i was asked to install divx plus and an adobe plugin. I found all my internet history deleted, but the bookmarks were still there. I've tried using time machine, but it just asks to 'set up time capsule' and opens air utility. on the trouble shooting information page of firefox, the 'places.history.expiration. current max pages' value is over a hundred thousand. is there a way to recover the history? i'm also using a data recovery program, what files should i look for that could help restore the session?
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If you do not have a copy of the places.sqlite file (either Time Machine or otherwise) that has your history then you can consider that history as lost because there is no backup of the history.
When there were problems with the places.sqlite file then it is possible that a new places.sqlite has been created and the bookmarks were restored from a JSON backup in the bookmarkbackups folder.
thanks. is there any reason why this happened? it was very unexpected
Did you wait long enough to make Firefox close properly and save all data to disk before closing down the computer?
Sometimes it can take longer to cleanup and save all data.
sorry for the late reply, yes it shut down properly, but i'll avoid the shut down timer from now in since that was what caused it
In case Firefox did an automatic Reset, did you find a folder named Old Firefox Data on your desktop?
(Actually, this is a very old thread, so perhaps too late for that question.)
What if I sync my history, wasn't my history supposed to stay storeed on the cloud in that case?