My hard drive crashed. It is fixed now, but my bookmarks are gone. How can I find them??
My hard drive crashed. It is fixed now, but my bookmarks are gone. How can I find them??
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What was the fix?
New hard drive installed? Do you have the old drive and an adapter for using it as an external drive? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile
Was the hard drive formatted? If so, do you have a data backup? If not, you could try a file recovery utility like this. https://www.piriform.com/recuva
Unfortunately a new hard drive was installed.
I set my new GPS on the laptop, not knowing there was a magnet in the GPS. My computer would not recognize there was a hard drive installed. The old hard drive is completely dead.
I did back it up with an external HD before this happened. I uploaded every thing to the new HD.
The Firefox profile folder is in a hidden location.
- C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>\
So make sure that you can see and access hidden files and folders.
The "AppData" folder in Windows Vista and later Window 7+ versions and the "Application Data" folder in XP/Win2K are hidden folders.
Windows hides some file extensions by default. Among them are .html and .ini and .js and .txt, so you may only see file name without file extension. You can see the real file type (file extension) in the properties of the file via the right-click context menu in Windows Explorer.
These can't get your data back, but will help in the future.
These add-ons can be a great help by backing up and restoring Firefox
FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension) {web link} FEBE allows you to quickly and easily backup your Firefox extensions, history, passwords, and more. In fact, it goes beyond just backing up -- It will actually rebuild your saved files individually into installable .xpi files. It will also make backup of files that you choose.
OPIE {web link} Import/Export extension preferences