Beef with Firefox...

[jimkopelli]

Grr... I'm pissed. I closed FF, and went away. I come back, and reopen it... and it has apparently eaten all of my bookmarks and extensions. WTF?

[Division56]

Your browser crashed.

The new one fixes this with a secondary cache.

[jimkopelli]

This IS the new one. I went to v. 1.0PR last week... now this.

[Claverhouse]

Oh, xxxx: I've just been up since 4am, got back an hour ago, & have to get up at the equally horrible hour of 7am but I'll walk you through it,

This does happen, [ also to Thunderbird mail client when I upgraded it didn't carry over my profile and kept creating a [ blocking ] new one: but I fixed that in a way that wasn't nice ]: I'm assuming you are running Windows & having backed up the especial files separately or used Moz-backup.

Your profile stuff is not connected to the Firefox installation, so you can uninstall any Firefox and the profiles will still be there. Good if you need them, taking up space if you don't.

Go to Windows/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles

[ Or for Thunderbird: Windows/Application Data/ Thunderbird/Profiles ]

The profile will be called something like default.7gh. I assume you only have one ?

Do this:



the-edmeister's
Firefox Informational pages
tips & tricks
Restoring your browsing data into a new Profile
When you have problems that may have required you to create a new Profile you can recover your 'history' from your old Profile. By 'history' I mean your Passwords, Form's Data, Certificate information, pages visited history, and user preferences.

You can't copy/paste the entire profile folder, it won't work.
But you can copy these files, one at a time.

bookmarks.html
cert8.db
cookies.txt
formhistory.dat
history.dat
hostperm.1
key3.db
signons.txt
* user.js
* userChrome.css
*userContent.css
{ * = the last three are user created and might not exist in your profile.
I recommend the ChromEdit extension for creating and editing these files.}


Firefox must be closed when performing the following:

1. Get two Explorer windows open side-by-side;
your old Profile in one and your new Profile in the other.

2. Right-Click and drag these files from
the old Profile into your new Profile one at a time.

3. When asked if you want to replace the existing file, say yes.

4. Once you have copied all eight or eleven files into your new Profile,
you are ready to open Firefox with all your browsing data restored.

Contact again if it didn't work, must :zzz: :zzz: :zzz:

REPEAT: CLOSE FIREFOX FIRST.




Claverhouse :ph34r:

[jimkopelli]

It never asked me to create a profile on the old version... and it didn't ask until I tried to open it after the great file poop happened. It doesn't matter now... I just redid all of the bookmarks and stuff.

[Claverhouse]

The profile is automatically created, a default one in your case: so it's all there filling up your HD. The profile manager only comes into play if you create more than one profile ( if you let others play about on your computer ? EG: you want your mother to be able to use it and explore your files ? ).

I could never recreate my bookmarks file. I imported it from Internet Explorer, long prior to my recent removal of IE; and considering the short time I've been on the internet, it is now a vast repository of irreplacable knowledge. Not unlike myself.

At the very least use an extension to back up your bookmarks every day if you don't feel like doing it manually. I do both.



Claverhouse :ph34r:

[jimkopelli]

Ok... but where do the extensions and stuff hide? I redid all of them, too... and neglected a few that I never used... Nobody else messed with my compy, not enough to make another profile... it definitely wasn't a parental unit with bad computer mojo. I have few enough bookmarks and good enough memory to replace them all... didn't have a problem there, it's just the principle of the thing.

[file cabinet]

look here ....
C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
if you installed the 1.0PR version without creating a new profile, that is probably why.