Background
I tried to log in to a website that I use often and discovered that all of my saved logins had disappeared.
After some looking around here, I was able to rest… (read more)
Background
I tried to log in to a website that I use often and discovered that all of my saved logins had disappeared.
After some looking around here, I was able to restore the passwords by replacing logins.json with a "previous version" of the file (about a day old).
about:profiles shows only one profile, the default. There are, however, 4 other "default" profiles in the "profiles" folder, including one from 2017. I ignored all of these older "default" profiles.
Although using the "previous version" seems to have solved the problem, there are a number of files in my default profile, including
- logins.json.corrupt
- 14 more files named login.json.corrupt-1 through login.json.corrupt-14, and
- logins-backup.json
I didn't notice logins-backup.json until after I had replaced the bad file with the "previous version" file, so I don't know if this was created before the problem started (I doubt it) or afterwards.
Questions
- If this happens again and there exists a logins-backup.json file, is that a possible file that can be used to replace a bad logins.json?
- Can I delete all those logins.json.corrupt files? Is there any way to use them? Is there any reason to keep them?