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I restored my previous windows version without backingup my bookmarks and I desperatly need to restore them...help please!

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I downgraded from windows 10 to windows 8 and I had done this through the system restore key /program in my laptop I forgot to backup my bookmarks and I need them desperately please help me

I downgraded from windows 10 to windows 8 and I had done this through the system restore key /program in my laptop I forgot to backup my bookmarks and I need them desperately please help me

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Unless you have a copy somewhere . . . . . . . . .

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Do you recall any questions posed by the installer about what to do with the data that was already on the hard drive? Some options may lead to a special folder being created.

To explore, you'll first need to turn on viewing of hidden files and folders: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/show-hidden-files

Then check here:

C:\Windows.old\Users\your-user-name\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

Assuming you find one or more folders there, one of them most likely will have your earlier Firefox data. Any luck?

If that doesn't exist, try a global search of your "C" drive for bookmarkbackups which is a standard Firefox folder. Hopefully you'll find more than just your new one.

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jscher2000 said

Do you recall any questions posed by the installer about what to do with the data that was already on the hard drive? Some options may lead to a special folder being created. To explore, you'll first need to turn on viewing of hidden files and folders: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/show-hidden-files Then check here: C:\Windows.old\Users\your-user-name\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles Assuming you find one or more folders there, one of them most likely will have your earlier Firefox data. Any luck? If that doesn't exist, try a global search of your "C" drive for bookmarkbackups which is a standard Firefox folder. Hopefully you'll find more than just your new one.

I did that, and the bookmarkbackups that appeared were the new sync. ones and before tat I didn't find the windows.old folder even after showing the hidden folders

Is there any hope or they are gone for good?

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It's hard to hold out hope. You could try an "undelete" program like Recuva and look for any recoverable files that match the pattern

bookmarks-2016-04 ... .jsonlz4

https://www.piriform.com/recuva

(Corrected per the following reply)

Edeziri site na jscher2000 - Support Volunteer

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Note that the bookmark backups have a .jsonlz4 file extension (.mozlz4 is used for search.json.mozlz4).

  • bookmarks-YYYY-MM-DD_<item-count>_<hash>.jsonlz4

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