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need to get bookmarks off of a harddrive from a pc that no longer works, have the drive ina caddy

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need to retrieve bookmarks from a harddrive from a pc that no longer works, the drive is now in a caddy atached to this pc ,and i can view the data, but dont know the location of firefox bookmarks

need to retrieve bookmarks from a harddrive from a pc that no longer works, the drive is now in a caddy atached to this pc ,and i can view the data, but dont know the location of firefox bookmarks

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See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Backing_up_and_restoring_bookmarks_-_Firefox

You need to locate the Firefox profile folder on that drive and restore the bookmarks from the most recent JSON backup in the bookmarkbackups folder. See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox

"Application Data" in XP/Win2K and "AppData" in Vista/Windows 7 are hidden folders See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Show_hidden_files_and_folders

Go to: Control Panel > Folder Options > "View" tab > under "Hidden files and folders", select "Show hidden files and folders" You may want to un-check the box "Hide extensions for known file types" to see the file extensions of all files

Vista/Windows 7: C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>\ XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>\

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See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Backing_up_and_restoring_bookmarks_-_Firefox

You need to locate the Firefox profile folder on that drive and restore the bookmarks from the most recent JSON backup in the bookmarkbackups folder. See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox

"Application Data" in XP/Win2K and "AppData" in Vista/Windows 7 are hidden folders See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Show_hidden_files_and_folders

Go to: Control Panel > Folder Options > "View" tab > under "Hidden files and folders", select "Show hidden files and folders" You may want to un-check the box "Hide extensions for known file types" to see the file extensions of all files

Vista/Windows 7: C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>\ XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>\