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Lost entire profile!
I'm using 121.0 for Manjaro Today, I had a problem trying to re-load a website I had saved just the other day. I have a bunch of such websites for a technical project I … (read more)
I'm using 121.0 for Manjaro
Today, I had a problem trying to re-load a website I had saved just the other day. I have a bunch of such websites for a technical project I am working on.
I tried loading the other saved web-sites. All had been saved as a complete file and by this browser. I have no other browser installed.
The problem was that the saved web-page kept re-loading. No forum-discussion could be found so the trouble-shooting option was entered into.
I opened Firefox in safe-mode (via the command-line call). Running a suggestion; clearing cache didn't resolve the problem (in safe-mode the saved web-page still kept re-loading with a rapid cycle)
The next "suggestion" I tried was refresh Firefox. Firefox advised that none of my saved data and settings would be lost. Well, my entire profile is gone!!! Thankfully synchronizing worked such that I could recover passwords, history etc. What are NOT recovered are the settings for websites, probably other infos too.
I have two login-accounts on my system and I have a shared, common profile for both. This was using a public folder with access rights only for those two users.
I have been using that profile architecture for months. This is now gone!! Those folders do not exist anymore. In its place are entirely new folders, their formats completely unfamiliar to me. I am recalling my latest backup but will it be of any use???
Many thanks, indeed.