My back up restore isn't working after doing an update Mozilla requested
Mozilla asked me to restart and reset, and in doing so I've lost ALL my bookmarks! When I follow the instructions to restore from back up, nothing appears and I get an error message. Please help!
Mozilla asked me to restart and reset, and in doing so I've lost ALL my bookmarks! When I follow the instructions to restore from back up, nothing appears and I get an error message. Please help!
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Hi, that does happen sometimes, please try :
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recover-lost-or-missing-bookmarks
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile
- What's What in the Profile
- bookmarks and history: places.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 (passwords) and key4.db (58+) or key3.db (57 and older) (decryption key) for Passwords saved in the Password Manager
- if you only have key3.db then make sure to remove an existing key4.db
- cert9.db (58+) or cert8.db (57 and older) for (intermediate) certificates stored in the Certificate Manager
- if you only have cert8.db then make sure to remove an existing cert9.db
- persdict.dat for words you added to the spelling 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)
fyi for the future :
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/export-firefox-bookmarks-to-backup-or-transfer
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-html-file
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles
Please let us know if this solved your issue or if need further assistance.
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