Passwords gone after signing in to Firefox
Unbeknownst to myself, I have been using Firefox for the greater part of a year without formally signing in. I've had a Mozilla account for some time, so I simply logged in and thought nothing of it. A few days later I tried to fetch a password for a service I use and noticed that all of my passwords were gone. I've tried going to about:profiles and trying both profiles listed, with no luck. I've checked my Desktop for any file dump, but no luck there either. Any advice would be appreciated!
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After some looking around, I've located files named "logins.json.corrupt" and "logins.json-1.corrupt". I am guessing that is bad news. I've also tried creating a new profile, and copying my key4 and logins-backup files into the new profile, but that hasn't led to anything. Interestingly, I noticed that logins-backup file has a creation date of many many months ago, which would lead me to believe it would contain the lost passwords but alas it does not.
Belial, sorry if this is too obvious a step, but did you try renaming "logins-backup.json" to "logins.json"? (after first making another backup copy of it, and while Firefox is not running, and also placing it into the correct profile folder?)
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