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hello I had to put my old computer on a back up harddrive in order to create more room on my computer. I don't have any of my bookmarks now on my firefox.. can you help me find them and put them on my new harddrive? thank you
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Most likely you can get them!
The tricky part is that Firefox data is stored in a hidden folder. On Windows, there's a system setting to show all the hidden folders, but I don't know whether there is a setting like that on Mac. Anyway, let's try this, with deep apologies if what I've cobbled together from various web articles doesn't work:
Open a Finder window and go to your external disk and open the Users folder. Here you should see your individual user folder. Don't open it yet.
Call up Finder's "Go To Folder" dialog from the Go menu or using Command+Shift+g.
Drag and drop your old user folder onto the dialog to start the location for your Firefox Profiles folder. Then type or paste this after that:
If there isn't a slash at the end, type:
/
Then:
Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/
And click Go.
If it worked, you should see one or more semi-randomly-named Firefox profile folders. Click into the folder, then into the bookmarkbackups folder and find the most recent backup. For more convenient access, I suggest dragging it to your desktop.
Once you have the backup file you want to restore on your desktop, you can use Firefox's Library dialog (bookmark organizer) to restore that backup file. This article has the steps: Restore bookmarks from backup or move them to another computer. This totally replaces any existing bookmarks you have in Firefox with the old set.