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Transferring Profile from one hard drive to another without launching Firefox or OS.

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I just got a new laptop because my old motherboard fried on my desktop. The old master drive is fine and I have a transfer kit that I can use to transfer over whatever files I need. I cannot figure out how to transfer my Firefox profile over to the new laptop. I cannot locate where the files are that I would need to transfer and don't know which files those would be. Only article I could find on here requires being able to either launch Firefox or the OS. I can't do either so help please.

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Stacy

I just got a new laptop because my old motherboard fried on my desktop. The old master drive is fine and I have a transfer kit that I can use to transfer over whatever files I need. I cannot figure out how to transfer my Firefox profile over to the new laptop. I cannot locate where the files are that I would need to transfer and don't know which files those would be. Only article I could find on here requires being able to either launch Firefox or the OS. I can't do either so help please. Thanks! Stacy

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You need to take ownership of the files if you do not have the permission to copy the files. You need to do that while running Windows Explorer as Administrator.

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Okay located the files, but now I keep getting an error every time I try to copy them over saying that I need administrative permission. Both are my computers so not like anyone else could have administrative permission so really not sure what I can do from here.

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You need to take ownership of the files if you do not have the permission to copy the files. You need to do that while running Windows Explorer as Administrator.

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I did that and still getting the same error. I doubled checked the files to ensure I have ownership and still the same thing.