How to recover Firefox bookmarks from my Seagate plus external drive. did a clean uninstall / reinstall of Firefox but failed to back them on my Mac
Did a clean uninstall / reinstall of Firefox but failed to back bookmarks on my Mac. I back up the Laptop each week, so assume that bookmarks are there.
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Found the answer elsewhere!.....Needed to "import/replace" the Firefox (invisible) folder from the "Seagate Back Up External Drive", using the "most recent back up to the external drive. The folder would REPLACE the existing "invisible folder" in the Firefox app.of that latest back up....I works.
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You'll want to find your profile that's backed up on the seagate and restore it
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data
you can go to the bookmarks ...click them. click on import and backup restore and click on the your file thanks for your trust to fire fox
Chosen Solution
Found the answer elsewhere!.....Needed to "import/replace" the Firefox (invisible) folder from the "Seagate Back Up External Drive", using the "most recent back up to the external drive. The folder would REPLACE the existing "invisible folder" in the Firefox app.of that latest back up....I works.