If you look in the profile folder, does it have a subfolder named bookmarkbackups?

If so, you can use the Restore feature in your new/up-and-running installation of Firefox to replace the built-in bookmarks with the contents of one of your backups. See:

Restore bookmarks from backup or move them to another computer

Note: the Restore menu won't list your old files automatically, you need to select Choose File and then point Firefox to the relevant file. Each file has its creation date coded into its name, so try the latest first.

Success?

Hi, Thanks for responding! A friend had instructed me to go to c drive/users/myname/appdata/local/mozilla. And he said to copy the profile - but that didn't work. And I don't see bookmarkbackups.

But, as I am reading your response, I noticed under my user name there is a folder Favorites - I wonder if I copied this over to the new computer - would that work?

Thoughts

Sorry, do you still have the old computer or a recent backup? The folder under AppData/Local/Mozilla is just some temp files, you need the folder under AppData/Roaming/Mozilla.

Also, just in case, to unhide the AppData folder:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/view-hidden-files-and-folders-in-windows-97fbc472-c603-9d90-91d0-1166d1d9f4b5

No apologies are necessary :). Yes, I still have my old laptop - I always keep it around in case i realize I missed something.

I found that folder - can I copy it over - I'm not quite sure if I follow the whole restore - but will try and figure that out.

Thanks for your help!!!!

You can drop it into your Downloads folder or somewhere easy to find. I didn't mention how to do a whole-folder transplant, but I can give you a link if that is something you might want to try -- note that your source folder will be different from this example:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1474421#answer-1687884

Thanks again - I had clicked on that and wound up at a string of Q&A with some very nasty people - wow