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i want to locate my places.sqlite file in my secondary hard drive which is i am runnig as a slave drive how can i locate the file

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i have a new hard drive because my old hard drive operating system (windows) is not booting. so i have a new hard drive with new operating system(windows). What i want is i want to locate the places.sqlite file in my older hard drive which is connected as slave partition to my computer .how can i locate places.sqlite in my slave drive so that i can restore my bookmarks in new hard drive with new operating system.

i have a new hard drive because my old hard drive operating system (windows) is not booting. so i have a new hard drive with new operating system(windows). What i want is i want to locate the places.sqlite file in my older hard drive which is connected as slave partition to my computer .how can i locate places.sqlite in my slave drive so that i can restore my bookmarks in new hard drive with new operating system.

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

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You can only achieve that by creating a new profile folder and locate that folder on the slave drive (Choose Location).

Be sure to specify an empty location that doesn't have any files in it.

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You may just wish to find the old places.sqlite and overwrite the existing file with the old one.

  • See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox#Windows
  • on XP you may expect the path to be
    \Documents and Settings\<Windows login/user name>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile folder>
    Note the folder is likely to be hidden, and it will have a slightly different name to the current one because of the semi random leading characters

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@john99 i am not running the operating system of slave hard drive .But yes i can locate the path as you have described but the problem is that i am also not able to find the application data folder in the user folder there is not application data folder in users folder.plz help i am in too much trouble

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