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anyway to restore bookmarks after reseting pc without backups?

moonpaw
moonpaw
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I recently had to completely reset my pc and lost everything except my photos and documents in notepad. After I reinstalled firefox and got all my usual daily websites set up I attempted to try and restore my bookmarks to no avail. I had no firefox account (until today) and no back ups when I went over the restore thing all it said was 'choose file' and when I clicked on it it just led me to things I already have but had no connection to my bookmarks! I can't hit undo because there is nothing to undo. Please help if possible!

I recently had to completely reset my pc and lost everything except my photos and documents in notepad. After I reinstalled firefox and got all my usual daily websites set up I attempted to try and restore my bookmarks to no avail. I had no firefox account (until today) and no back ups when I went over the restore thing all it said was 'choose file' and when I clicked on it it just led me to things I already have but had no connection to my bookmarks! I can't hit undo because there is nothing to undo. Please help if possible!

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Windows 10 has several options for what to do with your data when you use its Reset feature. One is to move it to a temporary folder named C:\Windows.old which is preserved for 30 {according to the above-linked article, only 28} days .

Do you see anything like that?

To explore that copy of the old user folder, you need to turn on viewing of hidden files and folders: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/show-hidden-files

Then look for

C:\Windows.old\Users\your-user-name\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

If you find data there -- one or more semi-randomly-named folders -- there's a good chance of using that to restore your Firefox bookmarks.

More details if found any folders... let us know.

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philipp
philipp
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please see if your old profile data is still accessible this way: https://support.microsoft.com/en-ae/help/17125/windows-8-restore-files-old-folder-upgrade

Profiles - Where Firefox stores your bookmarks, passwords and other user data

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Chosen Solution

Windows 10 has several options for what to do with your data when you use its Reset feature. One is to move it to a temporary folder named C:\Windows.old which is preserved for 30 {according to the above-linked article, only 28} days .

Do you see anything like that?

To explore that copy of the old user folder, you need to turn on viewing of hidden files and folders: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/show-hidden-files

Then look for

C:\Windows.old\Users\your-user-name\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

If you find data there -- one or more semi-randomly-named folders -- there's a good chance of using that to restore your Firefox bookmarks.

More details if found any folders... let us know.

Modified by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer