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Bookmarks won't transfer over

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Kingy
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I have copied the bookmarkbackups folder from a laptop to my flashdrive in order to reinsert into FF after clean installing WIndows 10 on it and reinstalling FF on that.

I thought it would be a case of just replacing the bookmarkbackups folder in the Profiles folder but apparently it doesn't work.

Can someone please help?

I have copied the bookmarkbackups folder from a laptop to my flashdrive in order to reinsert into FF after clean installing WIndows 10 on it and reinstalling FF on that. I thought it would be a case of just replacing the bookmarkbackups folder in the Profiles folder but apparently it doesn't work. Can someone please help?

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Hi Kingy, last step is to restore one of those backups to replace the default bookmarks that Firefox starts out with. Please see the following article:

Restore bookmarks from backup or move them to another computer

Does that work?

cor-el
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Note that you would have to remove all places files (places.sqlite, places.sqlite-shm and places.sqlite-wal) to make Firefox rebuild the bookmarks from the most recent compressed .jsonlz4 in the bookmarkbackups folder.