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Deleting ALL Firefox files

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A. J.
A. J.

I have lost all my bookmarks and history. I followed all the suggested remedies presented in this forum, but none solved the problem. I deleted (trashed) and reinstalled Firefox many times; I have restored various iterations of the application through 'Time Machine " (Mac OS 10.6) again with the same results. I suspect that there is a file hidden somewhere that is causing this problem. I would like to make a clean reinstall. How can accomplish this?''

'''I have lost all my bookmarks and history. I followed all the suggested remedies presented in this forum, but none solved the problem. I deleted (trashed) and reinstalled Firefox many times; I have restored various iterations of the application ''through '' 'Time Machine " (Mac OS 10.6) again with the same results. I suspect that there is a file hidden somewhere that is causing this problem. I would like to make a clean reinstall. How can accomplish this?'''''''

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cor-el
cor-el
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A possible cause is a problem with the file places.sqlite that stores the bookmarks and the history.

A. J.
A. J. Auteur de la question

Thanks for your response. I had already deleted the places.sqlite file and rebooted, but the problem persists.

cor-el
cor-el
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Did you try to restore an older version of places.sqlite via the Time Machine?

You can also see if you can find a working JSON backup in the bookmarkbackups folder.

A. J.
A. J. Auteur de la question

I believe I did, but I don't recall. I did use a number of application backups from Time Machine but, again, the problem continued. I'm in Windows right now, but I'll check again when I boot into Mac OS. I have Firefox installed in Windows too, and deleted and reinstalled it also, thinking there were some files in common. Still same problem. I'll continue to try to fix it, but I would appreciate any additional suggestions you may have. Thanks!