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Wo archive tread sia. Meɖekuku bia biabia yeye ne ehia kpeɖeŋu.

I lost all my website history I went to in May 2018 and need to know how to recover it

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rrabear1956
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I deleted in error and need this information back. Can someone tell me how to recover the information and back up all of my Firefox search history in individual files. I am also needing to bookmark it by months and create a file that is shown on my screen on the desktop. Thanks for any help.

I deleted in error and need this information back. Can someone tell me how to recover the information and back up all of my Firefox search history in individual files. I am also needing to bookmark it by months and create a file that is shown on my screen on the desktop. Thanks for any help.

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cor-el
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You would need a backup copy of places.sqlite (bookmarks and history).

You can look at this utility to browse System Restore points to see if you can find a places.sqlite copy with this history.

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

Location used for the main profile that keeps your personal data in "AppData\Roaming" (Root Directory on about:profiles).

  • C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>\

Note that Firefox needs to be closed when you replace files in the profile folder. Replacing places.sqlite with a older copy reverts the bookmarks to the state as stored in this copy, so you may want to backup the current bookmarks.