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Can't restore profile (and session) after profile deleted

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Hi, I'll try to explain exhaustively my problem and what I've tried.

While looking at adding a new profile, I made a mistake and deleted the actual profile. Firefox immediately shut, and I made the mistake to open it right after...

It started from zero, as it had no profile to go into. Creating a new profile in the same time. I did this a few time, nothing changed obviously. I went to the AppData/Roaming path to find my old profile, which wasn't there anymore. I then managed to recover my profile files thanks to Recuva and EaseUS.

But now, I'm stuck. When adding the files in the newly created profile, it seems to roll back to the profile creation prompt (like import stuff from other browsers etc.). Copy/pasting only the desired sessionstore or the previous backup doesn't work either. It also tried to put the "good profile" in the Profiles folder. Firefox didn't recognize it, and I couldn't create a new profile from this folder in the Profile Manager as it said "this name is already used" etc. (it's a default-release) I then tried to edit the profiles.ini and install.ini to force Firefox on the wanted profile. Which succeeded and failed at the same time: it opened the right profile-folder, but without any session, bookmark... and back again to the profile creation prompt. And created a new empty sessionstore, prefs, etc.

Then I'm left with my recovered backup files and no idea how to import them...

Any help will be warmly welcomed! Cheers

Hi, I'll try to explain exhaustively my problem and what I've tried. While looking at adding a new profile, I made a mistake and deleted the actual profile. Firefox immediately shut, and I made the mistake to open it right after... It started from zero, as it had no profile to go into. Creating a new profile in the same time. I did this a few time, nothing changed obviously. I went to the AppData/Roaming path to find my old profile, which wasn't there anymore. I then managed to recover my profile files thanks to Recuva and EaseUS. But now, I'm stuck. When adding the files in the newly created profile, it seems to roll back to the profile creation prompt (like import stuff from other browsers etc.). Copy/pasting only the desired sessionstore or the previous backup doesn't work either. It also tried to put the "good profile" in the Profiles folder. Firefox didn't recognize it, and I couldn't create a new profile from this folder in the Profile Manager as it said "this name is already used" etc. (it's a default-release) I then tried to edit the profiles.ini and install.ini to force Firefox on the wanted profile. Which succeeded and failed at the same time: it opened the right profile-folder, but without any session, bookmark... and back again to the profile creation prompt. And created a new empty sessionstore, prefs, etc. Then I'm left with my recovered backup files and no idea how to import them... Any help will be warmly welcomed! Cheers

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Okay I will close this question.

The files I recovered are likely corrupted, for example can't be read by https://www.jeffersonscher.com/ffu/scrounger.html, they look like empty when opened in Notepad, but there is stuff when I open them in Notepad++. Though, this will go beyond my skills to be able to access it, so I'll leave it here and go from and older backup.

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Okay I will close this question.

The files I recovered are likely corrupted, for example can't be read by https://www.jeffersonscher.com/ffu/scrounger.html, they look like empty when opened in Notepad, but there is stuff when I open them in Notepad++. Though, this will go beyond my skills to be able to access it, so I'll leave it here and go from and older backup.

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