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I recently had to replace computer, files were transferred but can't find Mozilla bookkmarks only IE

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i had to replace my laptop. All of my files were transferred on to new laptop. I had 2 browsers on my old, IE and Mozilla. When I picked up laptop from computer people today, only IE bookmarks are on there. He looked back over my files that were installed from old computer, and we can not find a Mozilla Bookmarks file. Please help.

i had to replace my laptop. All of my files were transferred on to new laptop. I had 2 browsers on my old, IE and Mozilla. When I picked up laptop from computer people today, only IE bookmarks are on there. He looked back over my files that were installed from old computer, and we can not find a Mozilla Bookmarks file. Please help.

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Your Firefox bookmarks and other data could be found in your old Firefox profile folder.

By default, Windows sets this as a hidden folder, so step 1 is to set Windows to show hidden files and folders. This article has the steps:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/show-hidden-files

Next, use the Windows search bar to look for all instances of bookmarks-2016* -- the automatic backup files Firefox creates every few days. This might be on your C drive or it might be on other media if that's how it was preserved.

These files follow a naming pattern like:

bookmarks-2016-03-10_750_gibberish.jsonlz4

In this example, the backup was made on March 10, 2016 and contains 750 bookmarks and bookmark folders. So you can get a sense of which one(s) look most promising.

Note: Windows doesn't know how to open these files, so don't try that. Instead, you'll use the Restore procedure. See:

Restore bookmarks from backup or move them to another computer

Any luck?