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Can I delete Profiles that are not in Profile Mgr?

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when I run the Profile Manager only two profiles show up. One is the default and the other is the current one. When I look at the C:\users\[name]\appdata\roaming\mozilla\firefox\profiles directory, there are six profiles listed: mfiles; mko2313h.default; 7wj2zutn.default; mfsigf6g.default; yohktqcx.default; and the current one - hqee0rjq.default. Can I delete all but the current one?

when I run the Profile Manager only two profiles show up. One is the default and the other is the current one. When I look at the C:\users\[name]\appdata\roaming\mozilla\firefox\profiles directory, there are six profiles listed: mfiles; mko2313h.default; 7wj2zutn.default; mfsigf6g.default; yohktqcx.default; and the current one - hqee0rjq.default. Can I delete all but the current one?

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Firefox shouldn't create a new profile by itself.
If profiles get lost and a new default profile (xxxxxxxxx.default) has been created then it sounds that at that time there was a problem with the profiles.ini file that has caused Firefox to create a new profile.
A reset would create a new default profile with a time stamp appended and manually creating a profile suggests a "Default user" as the name.

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You can register (create a new profile and use Choose folder) those profiles to have them show up in the Profile Manager or delete the other profiles manually in AppData\Roaming and in AppData\Local

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Thanks for your help. Deleted all but the two that were in the Profile Mgr and everything still works. Even though I have 8G of memory and 1.5Tb of storage capacity, I try to keep my system as lean as possible. Is there a resource that I can access that will explain how and why firefox creates extraneous profiles, or is it a function that occurs with each upgrade?

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Firefox shouldn't create a new profile by itself.
If profiles get lost and a new default profile (xxxxxxxxx.default) has been created then it sounds that at that time there was a problem with the profiles.ini file that has caused Firefox to create a new profile.
A reset would create a new default profile with a time stamp appended and manually creating a profile suggests a "Default user" as the name.