My Firefox bookmarks disappeared because I accidentally created a profile
I’ve been using Firefox for months without manually creating a profile (I assume one is created by default). I had a lot of bookmarks, and today I accidentally created a profile manually, but then deleted it after noticing it didn’t have my bookmarks. Now, even after deleting it, I still don’t have my bookmarks, and Firefox keeps creating profiles for me. I checked backup files, but I can’t find anything, or maybe I don’t even know which folder I’m supposed to look in. My browsing history is gone, and I think I also lost my saved passwords or usernames for websites I used.
I’ve already tried using firefox.exe -P and checking %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\, but my bookmarks aren’t in either of those folders (.default or .default-release). Honestly, I really don’t want to believe I could have lost everything that easily.
I even used Recuva to try recovering files like places.sqlite and checked the bookmarks folders in the only two directories where those files existed, but it was pointless. Honestly, I still don’t even understand how everything got deleted just from manually creating a profile. I really didn’t expect something like this to happen.
Alla svar (2)
Well, I gave up. I don’t think there’s any way to recover what I had. Firefox apparently never created any backups, or at least that’s what it looks like. I guess I’ll have to start from scratch.
Creating a new profile doesn't remove others so.
In the URL/address bar type
about:profiles
That will show you either all those you have or at least where they are on your system and you can navigate there.
Once there you will find a file [profiles.ini] That file is set to load a specific profile and you can edit that
Any editing to have effect must be done with Fx totally closed down