Thank You

The App was really useful, infact a lifesaver recently when my firefox crashed and I lost all my bookmarks, extensions with settings and Themes.

How about getting it affliated with Mozilla . More Firefox users will be able to use it in that case.

Is there any way of setting this to automatically back up using a scheduled task? Maybe a switch or something?

This tool did not ran on my PC! Did not run or opened! I am on Windows XP Pro SP2. Please tell me how can i run this tool!

Well... now that I'm officially here

I dink around with FF and Moz alot, not very much with T-bird, because, if you're still running mozilla-Zuite why use external email app?... But... here's my experience:

Moz-Backup has quit working for me -- maybe not others, but in either FF or Mozilla it often reports that the backup I've made is "corrupt or invalid" etc. The other cute issue with Moz-backup is that in the *.rpc files and prefs.js, it frequently forgot to correctly modify the new profile name -- this has been true both FF and Moz...

so's anyhow, since nobody mention support for the mozilla-suite, I'll test it on that -- after I back it up manually of course ;-)

THANKS FOR THE GOOD WORK

SkV

You can backup your firefox if you go C:\Documents and Settings\<USERNAME>\Application Data\Mozilla

cand make backup of this folder

Hi, i just got this recent error saying:

" Runtime error '429':
ActiveX component cant create object. "

and then it wont run, plz help. Thx.

Just a quick note:

If there's insufficient room on the drive when you backup, the program will say it's complete, then delete the partial backup file. You may want to do a check for disk space before the backup starts, and notify the user if there's not enough room.

Otherwise, seems to be a good program. I guess the true test will come when I actually have to restore a backup! I really wish that the Moz folks would integrate something like this into FF & TB.

There is another alternative for backing up Firefox. It is called Firefox Extension Backup Extension (FEBE). What is really nice about it is that it will rebuild your installed extensions and themes and create installable .xpi and .jar files. This makes it very easy to port your extensions to another profile or computer. It also backs up and restores bookmarks, preferences, and cookies.

More information here.

I love Backupfox 7.3. In fact, I used it weekly as I was updating/changing a lot of computers. My problem is that it now won't run. I click on it and it does nothing. No error message, no thinking about it, just nothing.

Am I doing something wrong this time? I there ome program it can't work with or something?

I have exactly the same problem as thunderbirdgrrl (the previous post). IT DOESN'T RUN ANYMORE NOW!!! I clicked on the application icon, but nothing at all happens!!!
It is a shame it was a very good application before!

Otherwise I have tried Firefox Extension Backup Extension ((FEBE) mentionned by Shadoefax) and had so much trouble with it!!! Stay away from it! If you intall this extension it will corrupt Firefox completely. It is a very good idea, but DOESN'T WORK AT ALL!!!

Thanks for this lovely program, nw_raptor. I can now reinstall Firefox without worrying about all the extensions and bookmarks needed to be added.

Amazing ... with well over 30,000 downloads and a 4.3+ AMO rating, you are the only person who has mentioned that! The really amazing thing is that it works fine for me ... imagine the odds! I wonder where the 30,000 other users with a completely corrupted Firefox are hiding.

Most of the people don't complain when something goes wrong they prefer to eradicate the problem and carry on their life. I did complain because that thing (FEBE) has completely spoiled the Firefox version I was using and I had to reinstall it completely. Now, I carry on my life.

You are touchy like if you were the one who made that crap chucky...

When I try using it with 1.5.0.4 and I back it up to any directory, it doesn't do anything. Is it compatible with this newer Firefox version?

All of your installed themes and extensions also?

Is there an easy way to backup Bon Echo with 1.5 installed? It seems backupfox will only backup the 1.5 instance.

Copy the profile?

great piece of firefox backup tool. thanks

Great job, this is amazing raptor, thank you!

Today I wanted to move my TB installation to another computer but BackupFox does not even start.

Does this have anything to do with me running TB 1.5.0.5 and FF 1.5.0.6?

Regards,

RolandD

It's backs up profiles, not installs. If you used the same profile for Bon Echo as you did for FF, that's what you get to backup.

Is there any benefit over just backing up the profile folder? Seems like the quickest and most effective way

Yes, you get your extensions, themes and all settings with this app.

This is a very useful program to have.

Nice work!

Thanks for making this tool could come in handy some day

Thanks for this great app.
Pity I didnt find it half and hour ago. Just had to reinstall Firefox after IE 7 messed everything up.

Keep up the work. Your programs rock.

absolutely amazing

It keeps telling me it can't find my Firefox profile

Thanks Raptor, this program just got me out a mess. A crate of ΒΕΡΓΙΝΑ is on it's way to you!!!

This app is a life saver. Period.

Any news on updates?

thx for this app... but so far MOZBACKUP have done a great job backing up all my data add-ons etc...

Hello,

i use backupfox 0.73.0.13 on my notebook and PC. Both running with windows XP Prof. Yesterday i must install on my notebook windows XP home/Toshiba recoverys.

I could not start backupfox on my notebook after using the windows Xp home.

Could somebody tell me, what i can do to use backupfox on my notebook?

Awesome, cheers

A great piece of software. Thanks.

I was able to launch BackupFox on Vista Business edition and restore my profile but now i'm trying to backup my profile in Vista nad Backupfox won't even launch. I see it popup in the process list for a split second then closes. Anyone else having an issue on Vista?

Does the extension somehow circumvent corrupted profiles? because otherwise wouldent it be just another backup tool?

In any case I prefer to do my backups manually so I could delete some extraneous files and stuff to cut the size down. (yes I do full backups).

I recently had to reformat my hard drive. I used Backupfox .73 to backup both Firefox and Thunderbird. Every time I try to restore Thunderbird it says it is successful but the profile is empty. I loaded Thunderbird first, created a preliminary profile. After I restore my old profile, there literally is none, even the profile created when I started Thunderbird is gone. I know my stuff was backed up because I can see everything if I try to open it with WinRar or 7z. For some reason though these programs cannot extract my files either. It says "unexpected end of archive". I can see the files i just can't get to the files. This is becoming very frustrating. Can you tell me how to proceed from here? Is there something I am doing wrong? The profile is in the default location. The username is the same. I don't know what I am doing wrong. Is there another way of getting to the files if Backupfox will not restore them? I would appreciate any help you can offer.

wattsmom4

does anyone have another download link?

websense is blocking the link as a "game" site.

What advantage does this have over MozBackup?

but i think even when u uninstall FF ann reinstall it, extension will be there... no need to install them again...system keeps it...

but if u need to format then.. u must have a list or... backup..but i prefer to keep list of it...no need to backup...bcs all are small sized..
btw this is my personal opinion..

When i used it, it restored my extensions including all my scrapbook captures too, this was AFTER a format

Is there any chance for an update to get it work with Vista x64? I just tried it on my new install of Business x64 and the default profile is still loading.

I've just backed up my profile successfully, however Firefox isn't remembering any of my passwords, and even though the box is ticked, it isn't asking to remember any new passwords for sites i've already been to. When i registered for this site, it did bring up the box to ask to remember the password.
None of my old passwords show up when you click the 'show passwords' button in the options menu.

Any help on this would be much appreciated.

Windows XP SP2 with Firefox 2.0.0.7.

EDIT
Deleting the signons2.txt file has wiped the slate clean and i can start saving passwords again.

does this save all Thunderbird emails and folders too?

Damn you, just formatted my machine because of a crashed and dead hdd LOL. Thx anyway, looks like a great app. Keep it up!

No, but MozBackup does what BackupFox do, and it saves Thunderbird emails and folders. (and other Mozilla apps)

Hey there just wondering if this program works for anyone on 2.0.0.8 cause it doesn't start for me. I wonder what is wrong?

I was just going through the thread and I see a lot of others who have been using this program suddenly not be able to load and open this program like my problem here. Anyone know why? Will the creator step up and see what is wrong please?

So how does this compare to MozBackup?

Thanks for this application, I've been using it for a long time...no need installers... but yesterday i had a problem, AVG Free Anti-Virus detects BackupFox.exe as a trojan horse.. i know it's a false positive, but i wonder if this issue can be fixed as soon as possible, Thank you...