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I want to save my firefox data on a hard drive prior to reformatting my hard drive

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richardedward
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I am running the latest version of Firefox (V62?). I would like to save my logins, passwords, bookmarks, adblocker etc on to a portable hard drive and then be able to re-import them. I have found 'backup and restore' where I am presentd with the option to copy raw data to clipboard. How? Where is the clipboard? Why can't I copy it to my portable drive? Am I approaching this in the correct manner? Why whenever I try to search for things like where is my clipboard win 10 do I get Bing this and Bing that? Thanks for reading my gripe / problems, any help gratefully appreciated. Mike

I am running the latest version of Firefox (V62?). I would like to save my logins, passwords, bookmarks, adblocker etc on to a portable hard drive and then be able to re-import them. I have found 'backup and restore' where I am presentd with the option to copy raw data to clipboard. How? Where is the clipboard? Why can't I copy it to my portable drive? Am I approaching this in the correct manner? Why whenever I try to search for things like where is my clipboard win 10 do I get Bing this and Bing that? Thanks for reading my gripe / problems, any help gratefully appreciated. Mike

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Hi Mike, there's no internal command for this. Firefox has a feature to back up or export bookmarks, but that's about it.

I suggest making a copy of the entire Firefox folder found using the following shortcut link in Windows Explorer or the Windows 10 search box:

%APPDATA%\Mozilla

That should expand to:

C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla

AppData is a hidden folder, so for easier navigation, see: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/14201/windows-show-hidden-files

Important: For Firefox, it is the \Mozilla\Firefox folder under Roaming that you want, not the data under Local where Firefox stashes the cache and other temporary/disposable content.

Some references:

richardedward
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Thank you, the way you have explained it makes sense to me (I think!). At least I don't feel baffled, bamboozled and sidetracked!! ! I shall attempt this tomorrow. Mike

WestEnd
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As to backup you can backup the bookmark and just write down the addons to download them later. As for passwords I write them down or use "NotePad" to save them and then store that onto a USB drive so when you log back in you can input them and save them again with FF.

FredMcD
FredMcD
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WestEnd, that is very good of you. I also make backups of my profile data.