I upgraded my computer, new OS on a new hard drive. Want to get my bookmarks off Firefox off my old drive, but can't find the file.
I upgraded my computer, by adding a second hard drive for a new OS, and kept the old drive as the data drive. I assumed that I could install Firefox on the new drive and import my bookmarks from the old Mozilla install on the old drive. I can't find the files on the old drive with my bookmarks. Should they still be there, or when I reinstalled Firefox, did I lose everything even though it was on another drive? I can't find any backup files on the old drive, and would like to restore my old bookmarks. Is there any way to do this?
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You need find your profile folder in the old drive, the way must be:
- First show the hidden files and folder:
- Then go to:
- <old drive>:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
- Enter in your profile, then enter in the bookmarkbackups folder.
- Copy the most recent json file(bookmarks backup)
- Then restore from them:
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You need find your profile folder in the old drive, the way must be:
- First show the hidden files and folder:
- Then go to:
- <old drive>:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
- Enter in your profile, then enter in the bookmarkbackups folder.
- Copy the most recent json file(bookmarks backup)
- Then restore from them:
Thank you for the help, that solved the problem. Once I got the hidden files to show, I was able to find the path, although it was different than stated. My old OS was XP. The path in XP was D:\Documents and Settings\Ron\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\u78ka8vk.default\bookmarkbackups. Hope this also may help anyone else who is upgrading from Windows XP.