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I need to retrieve my previous profile to get to my bookmarks. I created a new one accidently today and don't know the name of the previous profile.

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lamora
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I need to retrieve information from my previous profile and I don't know what that label is or how to find out.

I need to retrieve information from my previous profile and I don't know what that label is or how to find out.

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the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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See this KB article - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile

cor-el
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Did you reset Firefox or did you use the Profile Manager to create a new profile?

When you reset Firefox then a new profile is created and some personal data (bookmarks, history, cookies, passwords, form data) is automatically imported and the current profile folder will be moved to the desktop to an "Old Firefox Data" folder. Installed extensions and other customizations (toolbars, prefs) that you have made are lost and need to be redone.

It is possible to recover data from the old profile, but be cautious not to copy corrupted files to avoid carrying over problems.