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How do I change the location where my bookmarks are stored?

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I want to change where my bookmarks are saved and stored to another drive. I can't find any information on this.

I want to change where my bookmarks are saved and stored to another drive. I can't find any information on this.

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Hi azazure, Firefox stores bookmarks together with history in a database (the Places database) together with all your other critical Firefox data in your "profile" folder. It is possible to set Firefox to look for your profile folder on a different drive, but it is not to put only bookmarks (or only the Places database) on a different drive, outside of your profile folder. Does a profile move sound like it's worth pursuing, or did you have a more limited objective in mind??

Ref. Profiles - Where Firefox stores your bookmarks, passwords and other user data

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On Windows you can create symbolic links, but I do not know whether this works properly with respect to places.sqlite-shm and places.sqlite-wal SQLite temp files.