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I upgraded my S.O. to windows 7 and I cannot find my bookmark in windols.old

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How can I "restore" my bookmark I had when runed with win-XP? How can I "restore" all add-on I had when runed with win-XP?

How can I "restore" my bookmark I had when runed with win-XP? How can I "restore" all add-on I had when runed with win-XP?

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You need to locate the old profile folder in the windows.old backup.

In Windows the location is:

  • XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>\
  • Vista/Windows 7: C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>\

"Application Data" in XP/Win2K and "AppData" in Vista/Windows 7 are hidden folders

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Show_hidden_files_and_folders

See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Backing_up_and_restoring_bookmarks_-_Firefox

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the-edmeister
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https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Recovering+important+data+from+an+old+profile

azuk
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I'm sorry. I was not clear in my question. My problem is that I cannot find the bookmarks I had before upgrading Windows. T.I.A.

gluxon
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Was it an actual upgrade, or a reinstall?

cor-el
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You need to locate the old profile folder in the windows.old backup.

In Windows the location is:

  • XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>\
  • Vista/Windows 7: C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>\

"Application Data" in XP/Win2K and "AppData" in Vista/Windows 7 are hidden folders

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Show_hidden_files_and_folders

See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Backing_up_and_restoring_bookmarks_-_Firefox

azuk
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Thank you. The path I found was: C:\Windows.old\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\nsnljk7l.default\bookmarkbackups

Thank you