I deleted my history by mistake. Can it be recovered?
I wanted to delete my cookies because Discover(card) said that might fix a problem with their logins.
I went to options/.../cookies and then found a page [which I cannot now find] that purported to list all my cookies and had a button labeled "remove all". I clicked it. I then found that all my history, except saved logins and I guess site data, had been deleted.
Options/.../cookies now tells me that "Your stored cookies, site data and cache are currently using 41.6 MB of disk space."
I have only 1 profile: C:\Users\ral\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\uzq1udcz.default\
Is there any way to recover my lost data?
Thank you.
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Hey there, I understand that you removed your history, I am sorry, I don't think there is an undo button for that in Firefox.
However in Windows, there may be a 'restore to previous version' in your profile folder. This describes the feature: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/msgulfcommunity/2013/04/29/restore-previous-versions-of-your-files-easily-in-windows-8/
The file that stores history is the places.sqlite file. I hope that helps, let us know if you need more specific steps.
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