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Get your password from your file

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Draeggon
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Few months ago my windows totally broke so i installed a new windows on my PC, and on my system i have a file windows.old wich contain as it seems all of my previous file. But there were some password saved in firefox of this previous windows. Is there a way to get them back ?

Few months ago my windows totally broke so i installed a new windows on my PC, and on my system i have a file windows.old wich contain as it seems all of my previous file. But there were some password saved in firefox of this previous windows. Is there a way to get them back ?

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cor-el
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You would have to look in the Windows.old folder for this hidden location for the Firefox profile folder.

  • C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>

You can copy certain files with Firefox closed to the current profile folder to transfer or recover personal data. Note that best is to avoid copying a full profile folder.

  • bookmarks and history: places.sqlite
  • favicons: favicons.sqlite
  • bookmark backups: compressed .jsonlz4 JSON backups in the bookmarkbackups folder
  • cookies.sqlite for the Cookies
  • formhistory.sqlite for saved autocomplete Form Data
  • logins.json (encrypted logins;32+) and key4.db (decryption key;58+) for Passwords saved in the Password Manager
    key3.db support ended in 73+; to use key3.db in 58-72, make sure to remove key4.db
  • cert9.db (58+) for (intermediate) certificates stored in the Certificate Manager
  • persdict.dat for words added to the spell checker dictionary
  • permissions.sqlite for Permissions and possibly content-prefs.sqlite for other website specific data (Site Preferences)
  • sessionstore.jsonlz4 for open tabs and pinned tabs (see also the sessionstore-backups folder)

You can use the button on the "Help -> Troubleshooting Information" (about:support) page to go to the current Firefox profile folder or use the about:profiles page.