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Bookmarks recovery from windows 7 Hard drive

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laszlopatacsi
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Hi! My old laptop won't boot anymore. I got a Windows 10 laptop now. I can connect the windows 7 laptop hard drive to my new laptop, and it can read the hardware. How I can get my bookmarks back on the new laptop? Thanks!

Hi! My old laptop won't boot anymore. I got a Windows 10 laptop now. I can connect the windows 7 laptop hard drive to my new laptop, and it can read the hardware. How I can get my bookmarks back on the new laptop? Thanks!

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Dropa
Dropa
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To get bookmark you have to be able to access like it was working before to get the bookmarks and data to restore them to the new computer.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/restore-bookmarks-from-backup-or-move-them

Only thing with hooking the drive is if you can run that Firefox and open it to backup the bookmark but if that can't be done then it's most likely your not going to be able to transfer the data correctly.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1003872 https://support.mozilla.org/no/questions/1369044

cor-el
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You can copy certain files with Firefox closed to the current profile folder to transfer or recover personal data. Note that best is to avoid copying a full profile folder.

You can use the button on the "Help -> More Troubleshooting Information" (about:support) page to go to the current Firefox profile folder or use the about:profiles page (Root directory).

Note that in Windows "AppData" (Mac: ~/Library; Linux: ~/.mozilla) is a hidden folder.

  • bookmarks and history: places.sqlite
  • favicons: favicons.sqlite
  • bookmark backups: compressed .jsonlz4 JSON backups in the bookmarkbackups folder
  • cookies.sqlite for the Cookies
  • formhistory.sqlite for saved autocomplete Form Data
  • logins.json (encrypted logins;32+) and key4.db (decryption key;58+) for Passwords saved in the Password Manager
    key3.db support ended in 73+; to use key3.db in 58-72, make sure to remove key4.db
  • cert9.db (58+) for (intermediate) certificates stored in the Certificate Manager
  • persdict.dat for words added to the spell checker dictionary
  • permissions.sqlite for Permissions and possibly content-prefs.sqlite for other website specific data (Site Preferences)
  • sessionstore.jsonlz4 for open tabs and pinned tabs (see also the sessionstore-backups folder)