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hello, i moved to another pc and archived mozilla profile on CD. but by accidentally i copied the wrong folder. instead of copied the folder located in AppData/Roaming .. i copied the one in AppData/Local. is there any useful in this folder ? or should taking a corner and cry for being stupid..

hello, i moved to another pc and archived mozilla profile on CD. but by accidentally i copied the wrong folder. instead of copied the folder located in AppData/Roaming .. i copied the one in AppData/Local. is there any useful in this folder ? or should taking a corner and cry for being stupid..

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The location in AppData\Local is used for the disk cache and some other data as you can see if you inspect this data. The real profile folder with your personal data is in the AppData\Roaming location.

If you have no access to this profile data and don't have another backup then I'm afraid that it is lost.

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No there is no useful information in that folder, only the roaming folder has useful data.

Do you not have any other backups, access to the drive, a windows.old folder, etc?

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The location in AppData\Local is used for the disk cache and some other data as you can see if you inspect this data. The real profile folder with your personal data is in the AppData\Roaming location.

If you have no access to this profile data and don't have another backup then I'm afraid that it is lost.

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oh, bad luck unfortunately, that`s the only one i took Thx anyway :)