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Import bookmarks from another hard disk

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govaerts46
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My laptop crashed. I removed the hard disk and connected it with my pc thrue usb. My laptop used windows vista en my pc uses xp. I want to move my bookmarks from the hard disk to my pc. The bookmars are located here:K:\Users\ibmuser\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\rmnvgvis.default\bookmarkbackups

I tried to copy paste the JSON files into the mozilla bookmarkbackups folder, but had no succes.

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My laptop crashed. I removed the hard disk and connected it with my pc thrue usb. My laptop used windows vista en my pc uses xp. I want to move my bookmarks from the hard disk to my pc. The bookmars are located here:K:\Users\ibmuser\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\rmnvgvis.default\bookmarkbackups I tried to copy paste the JSON files into the mozilla bookmarkbackups folder, but had no succes. please help

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Good work so far. Firefox won't restore the backup from that folder automatically. You can trigger a restore using the method described in this article: Restore bookmarks from backup or move them to another computer.

cor-el
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You need to delete the places.sqlite file in the profile folder to make Firefox rebuild the bookmarks automatically from a JSON backup in the bookmarkbackups folder.
Otherwise you need to restore the bookmarks manually in the Bookmarks Manager (Library).