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still getting "Your firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible" messge after instructions on mozilla help website

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Hello all,

Despite uninstall/install am still getting message even after following the instructions on the support website for various potential fixes. Regardless of what I try just keep getting "Your Firefox Profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible.

Please help!

Hello all, Despite uninstall/install am still getting message even after following the instructions on the support website for various potential fixes. Regardless of what I try just keep getting "Your Firefox Profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible. Please help!

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ideato
ideato
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Hi, did you try to delete the profiles.ini file in the profile folder path to force Firefox to create a new default profile ?

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox

https://support.mozilla.org/kb/how-run-firefox-when-profile-missing-inaccessible

after that see: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox

thank you

cor-el
cor-el
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Note that uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox doesn't affect the Firefox profile folder.