Can't delete or add new bookmarks
For the third time Windows 10 crashed my system. The previous time I was able to save my Firefox data from AppData/Roaming and copied the old files into the newly downloaded Firefox, once I was able to re-download Windows. Yesterday Windows crashed and I reverted back to Windows 7. As I went to do what I originally did, take my old saved Firefox data, and paste it into the Firefox File in AppData/Roaming... everything loaded fine, with the exception I cannot delete existing bookmarks or add any new bookmarks. As a side not, a number of my files have had the miniature lock symbol on them, and have tried adding users to security and such. Any ideas please let me know
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Do you use any of these extensions which affect bookmarking in Firefox 40:
- IE Tab, IE Tab 2, IE Tab Plus, etc.: you'll need to disable
- Tree Style Tab: you'll need to disable
- Tab Mix Plus: you'll need to update to version 0.4.1.9
Actually, reading your post more closely, did you cross-restore between different Windows users? Note that Windows uses a unique SID for each user account, and that same-named users are not the same user as far as Windows is concerned. In that case, you might research on a Windows forum how to globally change the permissions/ownership of Firefox folders to the current Windows user.
What your second message said got me thinking. So I deleted the profile folder, which I copied, and opened firefox, so it would be as though it had just been downloaded. Then I went into my flash drive, which had the copied firefox files in it. I went into the import function in bookmarks and went to the restore, and choose the latest backup of bookmarks from the flash drive. Now I just have to re-enter all of my passwords. Thanks for the response, it got me thinking, which led me to fixing my problem. And in case anyone else uses this, I have no addons downloaded.
You can check for problems with the places.sqlite database file (bookmarks, history) in the Firefox profile folder.
- Places Maintenance: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/places-maintenance/