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Have potentially files for restoring old tabs? Need help

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My work PC has been updated to Windows 10 and all my old tabs and bookmarks are gone. Can I restore them with these old files I have? See picture. I have tried renaming the "update" files to sessionstore.js and placed it in every thinkable folder to no avail. I also tried renaming them to backup.session in the "sessions" folder with no luck.

My work PC has been updated to Windows 10 and all my old tabs and bookmarks are gone. Can I restore them with these old files I have? See picture. I have tried renaming the "update" files to sessionstore.js and placed it in every thinkable folder to no avail. I also tried renaming them to backup.session in the "sessions" folder with no luck.

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Firefox uses the sessionstore.js file in the profile folder to store session data, but this file is only present when Firefox is closed. The sessionstore.js file is created from recovery.js when you close Firefox and is removed and copied to previous.js when you start Firefox to make is possible to restore the session at any time.

Backup the session files in the sessionstore-backups folder in the Firefox Profile Folder to make sure not to lose possible important session data. Do NOT close Firefox when Firefox is already running.

You will normally find these files in the sessionstore-backups folder: 

previous.js (cleanBackup: copy of sessionstore.js from previous session that was loaded successfully)
recovery.js (latest version of the sessionstore written during runtime)
recovery.bak (previous version of the sessionstore written during runtime)
upgrade.js-<build_id> (backup created during an upgrade of Firefox)

You can copy a file from the sessionstore-backups folder to the main profile and rename the file to sessionstore.js to replace the current file (make a backup copy of the current sessionstore.js).

You can use this button to go to the current Firefox profile folder: