History of Recovering important data from an old profile

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Revision Status S Editor R Comment
Current M AliceWyman added, updated KB links
Approved M ErlingR Updated URL for Password Manager KB-article
Approved M AliceWyman Create a new Firefox profile: reworded
Approved M AliceWyman "Old Firefox Data" folder info, other edits
Approved   AliceWyman updated link to renamed article
Approved   AliceWyman updated link to renamed article
Approved M AliceWyman Create a new Firefox profile: Note added; other edits
Approved M AliceWyman Intro: links to Sync articles
Approved   Wesley Branton Formatting change to make the article consistent
Approved M Alex Leontief 'showing images' phrase deleted
Reviewed M lucas12 Added a couple of important files
Approved M AliceWyman Intro: linked to related article, removed Refresh info, other edits
Approved M AliceWyman more edits
Approved M AliceWyman Copying files between profile folders: edit to note, Step 1 refers to "old" profile
Approved M AliceWyman removed [[Use the Search bar in Firefox]] link, purged pre-fx60 content
Approved M AliceWyman favicons.sqlite added in fx55 (bug 977177) - see discussion
Approved M AliceWyman small edit to pending revision
Unreviewed   AliceWyman "Refresh Firefox" article linked from "(see this article for details)" - see discussion
Approved M AliceWyman edit to last revision (the Old Firefox Data folder contains a backup of the the old profile folder
Approved M AliceWyman small edit to last revision
Approved M AliceWyman Intro: a Refresh creates an Old Firefox Data folder on the desktop
Approved M AliceWyman shortened note for win about hidden files, as the article already links to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data#w_finding-your-profile-without-opening-firefox
Approved M jscher2000 - Support Volunteer Added note about showing hidden files and folders on Windows
Approved   AliceWyman added wiki note to also review the Profiles article if filenames change
Approved   AliceWyman Repeat steps 3-5 (there are only 5 steps)
Unreviewed   Artist minor edit (repeat steps 3-6 for each file)
Approved M AliceWyman [Fx58] cert8.db -> cert9.db; key3.db -> key4.db - see https://support.mozilla.org/forums/knowledge-base-articles/712877
Approved M AliceWyman [Fx55] mimeTypes.rdf file changed to handlers.json (bug 1287658)
Approved   AliceWyman minor edit: deleted "the" from "the Firefox"
Approved M AliceWyman Updated search engine data for fx45. See discussion in this kbforum and in https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data/discuss/6575
Approved M Chris Ilias purged pre-fx32 content
Reviewed M user1246922 Made important notes bold; changed wording
Reviewed M TalkingFirefox Bold some important info and made 1 change in main description in this artical
Approved M novica Rewrite search summary to less than 140 characters.
Approved M Tonnes copy/paste steps: 2-5 -> 4-6
Approved M AliceWyman Reset -> Refresh for fx35, updated link to renamed article
Approved   AliceWyman updated links based on renamed article, to "Create bookmarks to save your favorite webpages"
Approved M AliceWyman for fx32 Passwords: signons.sqlite -> logins.json
Approved   AliceWyman edited Description to add Slug: recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile and removed Share template
Approved M Joni Removed downloads.sqlite
Approved M Michael Verdi Made last revision apply to Fx 24+ (seems we changed this behavior in 24 along with search settings)
Unreviewed   Jason Robinson Firefox 24 at least only stores search engine data in search.json, no searchplugins folder or search.sqlite found.
Approved   Tonnes logged into -> logged in to
Approved M AliceWyman "Download actions" renamed "File types and download actions" (mimeTypes.rdf), added "Download history" (downloads.sqlite)
Approved M scoobidiver removed user style folders, fixed links, removed line breaks, added keywords
Approved M Michael Verdi New 160 character search summary
Approved M Nic Matthew Changing wording for easy reading
Approved M Swarnava Sengupta added the Share this article template
Approved M Michael Verdi for fx13 - added information about reset firefox feature
Reviewed   David (satdav) made it easier to read for users
Reviewed   dinar qurbanov do not forget to fix history length setting
Reviewed   scoobidiver Redirects to the Profiles articles for important data and files
Approved M scoobidiver changed keywords
Approved M Chris Ilias removed Firefox 3.0 content and associated for tags
Approved M AliceWyman resubmitting last edit, which added {for fx35,fx4} for * {filepath signons.sqlite}
Approved   Underpass ...along with what...? :-)
Approved   Michael Verdi removed keywords
Approved   AliceWyman fixed typo in keyword
Approved   scoobidiver Replace changelog summary by a real one, add keywords
Reviewed   scoobidiver Replace changelog summary by a real one, add keywords
Approved M TonyE Fixed some content that was not being displayed.
Unreviewed   Chris Ilias

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