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My firefox crashed and I lost all my history, bookmarks are still there, is there a way to restore my history?

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Out of the blue firefox crashed for no reason and it deleted months worth of history, is there any way to restore it. I heard something about the places.sqlite file but dont know how to restore from it.

can anybody help?

Out of the blue firefox crashed for no reason and it deleted months worth of history, is there any way to restore it. I heard something about the places.sqlite file but dont know how to restore from it. can anybody help?

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Did you check whether Windows has shadow copies of places.sqlite as part of a System Restore point like I posted above?

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Do you have an older copy of places.sqlite ?

If you have ever used the refresh feature in Firefox then you may have a "Old Firefox Data" folder on the desktop.

You can check in Windows Explorer if there is a previous version of the places.sqlite file available.

See also System Restore Explorer

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Look on your desktop. Do you see a folder called; Old Firefox?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-run-firefox-when-profile-missing-inaccessible


Type about:profiles<enter> in the address bar. How many profiles are listed? How many should be there?

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No theres isnt a folder on the desktop, i file searched the places.sqlite file and the only ones that appeared were in the roaming profiles firefox location :(

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Did you check whether Windows has shadow copies of places.sqlite as part of a System Restore point like I posted above?

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cor-el said

Did you check whether Windows has shadow copies of places.sqlite as part of a System Restore point like I posted above?

Life saver. Did the right click restore from previous version. Didnt know windows had such a function.

Thanks