Shifting history, saved passwords from one system to another
Hi,
I wanted to shift the history, saved passwords etc. from my work Windows Xp to my Home's Windows 10 system. What I did was I copied the whole and the only profile folder from C:\Documents and Settings\ABCD\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles from the XP system, created a new profile in the system with 10 and pasted every file and folder there but I wasn't able to view the history and password from my work pc. I then created a new profile and copied only the places.sqlite, key3.db and logins.json files but still it didn't show the work pc's history and passwords. I am on leave to complete some project and I need the websites from the history urgently. What am I doing wrong here?
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Any help guys?
Type about:support in the address bar and press enter.
Under the page logo on the left side, you will see Application Basics. Under this find Profile Folder. To its right press the button Show Folder. This will open your file browser to the current Firefox profile. Now Close Firefox.
This is your current profile. Copy the folder As Is to a folder on a thumb drive. Then Copy the folder to the new system.
FredMcD said
Type about:support in the address bar and press enter. Under the page logo on the left side, you will see Application Basics. Under this find Profile Folder. To its right press the button Show Folder. This will open your file browser to the current Firefox profile. Now Close Firefox. This is your current profile. Copy the folder As Is to a folder on a thumb drive. Then Copy the folder to the new system.
The method which you have mentioned and the way I have copied the data results the same. I have copied the abcd.default folder from the XP system. In the system with Windows 10 I created a new profile like xyz.defaultuser and I copied everything from the abcd.default folder in it and selected this xyz.defaultuser as the profile to be worked on but I am getting nothing. Then I copied only the places.sqlite, key3.db and logins.json files but still it didn't show the work pc's history and passwords (source- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile) Since I am on leave to complete a project so I cannot go back to copy the data again. How can I make use of the data that I have?
Any help guys?