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where are my bookmarks from my previous version of windows?

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I had some computer work done. Windows xp would not boot so I had to install windows 7. I reinstalled via a new download: Firefox. All old data, programs and other files are in a folder named "old windows"-this was done automatically during windows 7 installation. I can't find my old bookmarks. There is a folder in old windows with the previous firefox. None of the places the articles here said they might be seem to exist now. Do mt bookmarks still exist? Where are they?

I had some computer work done. Windows xp would not boot so I had to install windows 7. I reinstalled via a new download: Firefox. All old data, programs and other files are in a folder named "old windows"-this was done automatically during windows 7 installation. I can't find my old bookmarks. There is a folder in old windows with the previous firefox. None of the places the articles here said they might be seem to exist now. Do mt bookmarks still exist? Where are they?

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cor-el
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Firefox stores your personal data in the Firefox profile folder.

  • C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>\

So you need the find this folder in the old windows backup.

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

See also:

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As I wrote: "None of the places the articles here said they might be, seem to exist now"

That information is in one of the articles-the data stored there (the folder described) is for the presently (newly) installed firefox as the only 2 bookmarks that may or may not have migrated were the 2 I have just put there. There is no such branching of files within the "old windows" folder. Not in any of the users, application data or mozilla folders that I can find.

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Then you out of luck and it is likely that you lost your personal data.

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