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Need to recover bookmarks from another hardrive after a computer crash.

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  • Èsì tí ó kẹ́hìn lọ́wọ́ jlpiatt

jlpiatt
jlpiatt
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Purchased new computer after the old one died. Haredrive is still good as an external drive. I have installed Firefox on new computer and wish to recover my old bookmarks from the old hardrive to the new. Suggesdtions?

Purchased new computer after the old one died. Haredrive is still good as an external drive. I have installed Firefox on new computer and wish to recover my old bookmarks from the old hardrive to the new. Suggesdtions?

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

Your old Profile is located here in Vista & Win7:
drive:\Users\Windows login user name\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\profile_name

jlpiatt
jlpiatt Ìbéèrè olóhun
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I have tried several varioations of you recommendation. Now when I run firefox and it asks for which profile to use, it gives me the message "firefixe is in use" for the profile I created.

jlpiatt
jlpiatt Ìbéèrè olóhun
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Done. All I needed to do was restore a backup from the old hardrive. Thankls