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My C hard drive is full. How can I get Firefox to run from the D drive?

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My C hard drive is almost full. How can I get Firefox to run from the D drive? I tried copying the files there but it would not run. Do I need to edit something in the Registry? I'm using (for as long as I can) Win 10 on a Dell desktop. Latest version of Firefox is installed.

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My C hard drive is almost full. How can I get Firefox to run from the D drive? I tried copying the files there but it would not run. Do I need to edit something in the Registry? I'm using (for as long as I can) Win 10 on a Dell desktop. Latest version of Firefox is installed. Thanks for any assistance.

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What OS? If windows, home or pro? If windows, are you running any security software besides MS Defender? What version of Firefox? i think a better move would be to install another copy of Firefox on the D drive and then use the import process or Sync to get your data into the D drive version of Firefox. You can also just clean up the C drive by moving files to the D drive. Another fun thing you could do is just use a free partition manager for Windows to give C more space if the partition is small and you have more room on the drive.

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Thank you for trying! Windows Home, Norton security (with none of their extensions), Firefox 139.0.1, 64 bit.

 I use the Windows clean up & Norton Utilities to get rid of "system junk."

When I downloaded Firefox to the D drive, I remembered why it didn't work the last time- When I try to open it, there is an error message: "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. The old Firefox process must be closed to open a new window." No Firefox shows up anywhere in the Task Manager- there is nothing I can close. That's why I wondered if there is something I need to edit in the registry. I have not tried deleting Firefox from the C drive because I'm afraid of losing all my many bookmarks & passwords. Since I can't open the D drive version, I can't sync or import my data. I've moved everything I safely can (meaning that I know what the files are) to the D drive.

 Thanks again-

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Without seeing your setup, I would just buy a bigger driver, get an external case, and then using free partition software copy you current c drive to the bigger new c drive.

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