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After system restore i reinstalled firefox, how to get back bookmarks etc with old firefox data?

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saaraah
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After system restore the only thing i have is old firefox data on desktop if all bookmarks, passwords are recovered it will be great help. P.S i reinstall firefox from drive other than c ,that was in downloaded form. Thanks

After system restore the only thing i have is old firefox data on desktop if all bookmarks, passwords are recovered it will be great help. P.S i reinstall firefox from drive other than c ,that was in downloaded form. Thanks

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Nellus
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See Recover important data from an old profile

cor-el
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The "Old Firefox Data" folder on the desktop has been created as the consequence of resetting Firefox.

Doing a Session Restore may have reverted the profiles.ini file to a previous version that hasn't registered the new profile folder that a reset had created, so you may need to check for this.

  • C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>\

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

If you have a profile folder that is more recent than the "Old Firefox Data" on the desktop then you can use edit the profiles.ini file and change the path of the currently default profile to the name of the profile folder as you find in Document and Settings.

It is always best to be cautious with using System Restore as this can cause some file to be replaced with older copies, i.e. your Firefox installation and profile folder can get inconsistent and you may have to reinstall Firefox as well.