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My old windows is on an external drive, how do retrieve firefox bookmarks that are on the drive?

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lukas100lukas
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I had windows 7 on drive C, now I got new computer with a new windows 7 and I'm using the old drive (C) as an external hard drive, it still has all program files and windows files on it. How do I retrieve my old book marks that are on that hard drive, I did not back them up before.

I had windows 7 on drive C, now I got new computer with a new windows 7 and I'm using the old drive (C) as an external hard drive, it still has all program files and windows files on it. How do I retrieve my old book marks that are on that hard drive, I did not back them up before.

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cor-el
cor-el
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You can find the Firefox Profile Folder in this location (replace the x with the proper drive letter):

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

The "Application Data" folder in XP/Win2K and the "AppData" folder in Windows Vista and later Windows 7+ versions are hidden folders.

You can use this button to go to the current Firefox profile folder:

  • Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Show Folder
FireChemist
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This KB article details everything in how to backup your profile to a USB drive, to applying the backed-up profile to another computer. H

Back up and restore information in Firefox profiles

Hope it helps!