
can I recover page shots after uninstalling firefox
I had to uninstall Firefox. After re-intalling I have lost all my page shots. Can I recover them?
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What do you mean with page shots? Can you give more details? Do you mean the bookmarks?
In case you removed your personal data when you uninstalled Firefox then you have lost all your personal data in the profile folder. If you didn't create a backup then your personal data is lost.
Do you mean the Page Shot tool that is part of the Test Pilot add-on?
https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/page-shot/
Did you reinstall Test Pilot?
I suspect your images are still on the pageshot.net site but I'm not sure how you can access them without the list of URLs. Hopefully you didn't do a full scrub with Revo or another highly destructive uninstaller.
I did reinstall Test Pilot.
I used the uninstall program provided by the laptop I have, no iddea what this was. Any suggestions ?
If you uninstall Firefox using the Windows Control Panel, "Uninstall a Program", then your data is preserved and should automatically reappear when you reinstall Firefox. So you might have used a different method, but I don't know what it was. Can you find it on the menu somewhere and get more details about it?
Did you ever use Firefox's Refresh feature? If so, check the Windows desktop for a folder named Old Firefox Data. If you find that, click inside and check the modified dates on the files. Don't try to directly open individual files, since most of them are not in a format that can be used that way.
Firefox data is stored along the following path:
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
"AppData" is a hidden folder, so you probably will want to make hidden files and folders visible: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/show-hidden-files
You should find a semi-randomly-named profile folder at that location. Do you have any additional profile folders under Profiles? If so, take a look inside to see whether those are dated from around the right time to possibly be your lost data.