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Firefox does not restore my old profile(14.0.1)

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I've copied the contents of my old profile to the new profile folder in appdata/local/mozilla/firefox/profiles/xxxxx.default.

Do I need to copy only specific files? I want to restore my passwords and bookmarks

I've copied the contents of my old profile to the new profile folder in appdata/local/mozilla/firefox/profiles/xxxxx.default. Do I need to copy only specific files? I want to restore my passwords and bookmarks

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Recovering important data from an old profile should show you what to copy and how to do it.

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Recovering important data from an old profile should show you what to copy and how to do it.

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argh! I copied the old profile from "appdata/local/" instead of "appdata/roaming". My bad. I just lost all my bookmarks and data :(