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my previous session restore crashed

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my previous session restore crashed because i opened firefox and it did'nt respond , so i ended it's process via Taskmanager , how can i restore cache.trashxxxx folder to cache folder so next time i open fire fox my last session opens again?? i tried copying the contents back to cach folder , but it just moves it to a new cach.trash folder 

any way to help me?? i had so many important tabs open
my previous session restore crashed because i opened firefox and it did'nt respond , so i ended it's process via Taskmanager , how can i restore cache.trashxxxx folder to cache folder so next time i open fire fox my last session opens again?? i tried copying the contents back to cach folder , but it just moves it to a new cach.trash folder any way to help me?? i had so many important tabs open

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Okay, before you open/close Firefox again:

Your last session windows and tabs are stored in a file named sessionstore.js, not in the cache.

Using the Windows Start menu, search box or Run, type or paste the following and press Enter: 

%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

If you see only one folder (semi-random name), click into it and back up all of these files to a safe location (if you see more than one such folder, check the files in them and back up the most recent): 

sessionstore.js
sessionstore.bak
sessionstore.bak-datetime

If you find any numbered files such as the following, back those up too: 

sessionstore-1.js

If you can't see .js extensions, turn off the feature of Windows that hides them. See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/865219

Can you find any files from the time that you want to restore?

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Okay, before you open/close Firefox again:

Your last session windows and tabs are stored in a file named sessionstore.js, not in the cache.

Using the Windows Start menu, search box or Run, type or paste the following and press Enter: 

%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

If you see only one folder (semi-random name), click into it and back up all of these files to a safe location (if you see more than one such folder, check the files in them and back up the most recent): 

sessionstore.js
sessionstore.bak
sessionstore.bak-datetime

If you find any numbered files such as the following, back those up too: 

sessionstore-1.js

If you can't see .js extensions, turn off the feature of Windows that hides them. See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/865219

Can you find any files from the time that you want to restore?

cor-el
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Which Windows version are you running?

Hitman2847
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ok thanks , i found out how , but if i couldn't find , your post would enlighten me how to so thanks , thats what i did , i just deleted other sessionstore files that were small, and renamed the sessionstore.bak that was about 705 Kb to sessionstore.js , and it got fixed , thnx