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Firefox Saved Passwords & Bookmarks to New Installation.

  • 04-09-2009 10:39am
    #1
    try
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 189 ✭✭


    I've done a reinstall of Windows XP. Before starting I took a copy of contents of the Firefox profiles folder (hidden files visible) and in particular text files called signons2 and signons3

    The first thing I tried with the new installation was to copy the signons3 file to the new profiles folder (am running 3.5 in both old & new) - didn't work

    Then I tried copying all the old profile contents to new profile - didn't work

    Please tell me if and how I can recover the old bookmarks & passwords


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  • #2
    BopNiblets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭BopNiblets


    Are you sure Firefox is using the Profile you copied and not a default blank one?
    In your profiles folder now is there only one or two profile folders?
    They have names like hucp2yb2.default and a profile.ini file which should have that folder name in it too, if Firefox is using a new defalt profile it will just have the default bookmarks, all you need to do is set your old profile as the default.
    I usually rename the new profile with the old ones name.

    You might want to get Xmarks addon (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2410) or maybe experiment with Weave (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10868) which saves bookmarks and passwords on a server for ya.


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