How may I restore bookmarks, saved passwords from a slave drive?
I recently upgraded CPU and mobo, which broke windows 7. in stalled OS on new HDD with old HDD now as a slave drive. How may I recover my bookmarks and saved passwords from the old drive?
Isisombululo esikhethiwe
You need to copy files from the Firefox Profile folder on your old (slave) hard drive to the Firefox Profile folder on your new hard drive. For Bookmarks, copy the file places.sqlite. For Passwords, copy 2 files, signons.sqlite and key3.db
- See --> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Profiles and http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
- See --> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Recovering+important+data+from+an+old+profile and http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox
- See --> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Show_hidden_files_and_folders
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Isisombululo Esikhethiwe
You need to copy files from the Firefox Profile folder on your old (slave) hard drive to the Firefox Profile folder on your new hard drive. For Bookmarks, copy the file places.sqlite. For Passwords, copy 2 files, signons.sqlite and key3.db
- See --> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Profiles and http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
- See --> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Recovering+important+data+from+an+old+profile and http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox
- See --> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Show_hidden_files_and_folders
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Thanks! That really saved the day!