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How to retrieve cookies deleted by mistake

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I was trying to delete a particular third-party cookie. Instead of clicking on the 'delete selected cookie', I clicked on remove them all. I would like to get the cookies back so I can go back and just delete the ones I don't want. I have not closed my browser, and won't until I hear back. Thank you!

I was trying to delete a particular third-party cookie. Instead of clicking on the 'delete selected cookie', I clicked on remove them all. I would like to get the cookies back so I can go back and just delete the ones I don't want. I have not closed my browser, and won't until I hear back. Thank you!

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Hi waverlytrash, I am sorry, once they have been deleted this cannot be undone.

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Windows may have created a backup of your cookies.sqlite database during system updates or backups. I'm not sure it makes sense to look for a potentially week-old file, but if you're curious...

This is trickier on Windows 8 than on Windows 7, and you might benefit from using a third party utility. These were mentioned in another thread:

Or... I read about a roundabout way to get Previous Versions on the Properties dialog in Windows 8. I can't test this myself, but here's what you do:

In the address bar of your Windows Explorer dialog, replace the current path with the following and press Enter:

\\localhost\c$

Then click at the end and tack on the following (with your username) and press Enter:

\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

That should get you in the vicinity of your profile folder. Double-click into that and right-click cookies.sqlite > Properties > Previous Versions to see what might be available. To avoid corruption or crashing, please restore to a different location, exit Firefox, rename the current cookies.sqlite to something like cookies.20150521 and only then copy the old cookies.sqlite into the profile folder.

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Note that easiest to prevent such a mistake is to use the Delete key to remove selected cookies and not click the button with the mouse.