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Recover password

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Nibe
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My pc crashed and I had to reinstall win. Instead of reinstalling XP I decided to install win7. It looks like it kept a folder with old stuff in.

I did back up my passwords from Password Protector, but I didn't export them ( I'm not sure the version I had before gave me the opportunity to do so, or maybe it was another program I used) I copied some file(s) and saved them to my other drive, but they might also still be on my C: in the win.old folder.

I've been searching the web for 2 days now, hoping to find the site that explained how to backup the passwords like I did a few months ago, but with no luck.

Can someone please help me?

My pc crashed and I had to reinstall win. Instead of reinstalling XP I decided to install win7. It looks like it kept a folder with old stuff in. I did back up my passwords from Password Protector, but I didn't export them ( I'm not sure the version I had before gave me the opportunity to do so, or maybe it was another program I used) I copied some file(s) and saved them to my other drive, but they might also still be on my C: in the win.old folder. I've been searching the web for 2 days now, hoping to find the site that explained how to backup the passwords like I did a few months ago, but with no luck. Can someone please help me?

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Hi,

I'm not sure if this is the solution, but maybe the following article will help you do a backup? Back up and restore information in Firefox profiles

-Michelle

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mluna
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Hi,

I'm not sure if this is the solution, but maybe the following article will help you do a backup? Back up and restore information in Firefox profiles

-Michelle

Nibe
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I found the info in this forum, off cause right after I posted here, even I have spend two days looking for it.

I did a search for two files: signons.sqlite and key3.db and moved them to my present folder. That did it.