Reinstalling Windows 7. Will I lose my bookmarks?
Installed a new harddrive which has caused problems. Will have to wipe my computer clean and reinstall Windows 7. Realize I will have to reinstall Mozilla Firefox and am concerned I will lose all of my bookmarks.
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Hi
No need to worry, all you need to do is make sure you capture your Firefox profile when you back up your files. You can read more about how to find and backup your profile here.
I hope this helps, but if not, please come back here and we can look into a different solution for you.
You can use this button to go to the current Firefox profile folder and backup this folder:
- Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory:
Windows: Show Folder; Linux: Open Directory; Mac: Show in Finder - http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
Note that Firefox uses two locations for the Firefox profile folder. Location used for the main profile in "AppData\Roaming" that you can backup.
- C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>\
Location used for the disk cache and other temporary files in "AppData\Local" that doesn't need to be backed up.
- C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>\
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