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Need to recover my saved passwords from a non-working Firefox to add to Firefox reinstall.

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Old computer died. Hard Drive should be ok. Going to put old hard drive into new PC as second drive. I would like to recover saved passwords to new install of Firefox.

Old computer died. Hard Drive should be ok. Going to put old hard drive into new PC as second drive. I would like to recover saved passwords to new install of Firefox.

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The path on Vista and 7 is:

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

AppData definitely is a hidden folder, and the steps to unhide on Windows 7 are: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/wi.../show-hidden-files.

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This article lists the different files involved in saving passwords: Recovering important data from an old profile.

Assuming the old disk was a Windows XP disk, your old profile folder should be under:

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

If I recall correctly, Application Data was a hidden folder. To force Windows to show hidden files and folders, see the steps in this article: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/do.../win_fcab_show_file_extensions.mspx.

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Thanks for the reply. The old machine was Vista, the new one will have Windows 7. Not sure if that makes a difference. I will try your solutions when I get the new machine.

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The path on Vista and 7 is:

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

AppData definitely is a hidden folder, and the steps to unhide on Windows 7 are: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/wi.../show-hidden-files.