I have Windows 10, version 1903.
I recently backed up my Mozilla Roaming and Local profiles to an external drive before replacing the hard drive in my laptop.
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I have Windows 10, version 1903.
I recently backed up my Mozilla Roaming and Local profiles to an external drive before replacing the hard drive in my laptop.
After replacing my hard drive with a new one, I restored an earlier image file of my computer in order to put back all my data onto the new drive.
Then I did a Fresh Start, effectively doing a new install of Windows 10 (v.1903).
(As far as I can tell, my old Firefox data was deleted during the Fresh Start reinstall.)
I now did a new install of Firefox onto my computer.
After I opened it I synced. Because my favicons were not restored (a generic globe icon shows in their place instead), I'd like to load in my old saved profile and make that my default profile.
The problem:
So I tried copying and pasting the saved profile ("bxfz7tby.default" ) back into the new Mozilla Roaming and Local profiles (e.g, into "C:\Users\,username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\", but I can't get Firefox to access them. Instead, it only accesses the new profile it created.
I did an uninstall and tried it again, but all I ended up doing is creating another new profile.
Now when I go to About:Profiles (see image), the default-release and default profiles listed don't seem to exist anymore (they aren't loadable, and they can't be found using the filepath noted there), and the actual backup profiles that I copied from my portable drive into Mozilla and that I actually see in File Explorer, doesn't show up as a profile choice.
How can I restore my old backed up profile?
And if I do restore it successfully, will that also restore my missing favicons?