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Changed Computer. Old HDD is now slave. FF is not finding old settings and saved passwords. Very Important Saved Passwords.

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Hi, I have changed my Computer. Essentially, the M/B, CPU, RAM, HDD, etc. I still have my old HDD and Mozilla was installed there. I have a lot of saved passwords on that Firefox. I have started Firefox from there itself. Yet, FF doesn't find those passwords and other things. These are very important as they are passwords for Income Tax, Service Tax, VAT websites of various clients. I am a tax consultant. So, If I cant recover those, I'm dead. Please help.

Hi, I have changed my Computer. Essentially, the M/B, CPU, RAM, HDD, etc. I still have my old HDD and Mozilla was installed there. I have a lot of saved passwords on that Firefox. I have started Firefox from there itself. Yet, FF doesn't find those passwords and other things. These are very important as they are passwords for Income Tax, Service Tax, VAT websites of various clients. I am a tax consultant. So, If I cant recover those, I'm dead. Please help.

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For the passwords you need key3.db and signons.sqlite

See:

The "Application Data" folder in XP/Win2K and the "AppData" folder in Vista/Windows 7 are hidden folders.

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For the passwords you need key3.db and signons.sqlite

See:

The "Application Data" folder in XP/Win2K and the "AppData" folder in Vista/Windows 7 are hidden folders.