Restoring Bookmarks


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I recently reformatted my HD, and everything was deleted. I had important data backed up, including my Firefox bookmarks.

How would I get to restore my old bookmarks to show under Firefox now. Currently I have nothing bookmarked since my PC was reformatted. I would like to know how would I transport my old profile-which I have saved on to the current Firefox browser.

I located my C:\documents and settings\my username\application data\Mozilla\Firefox\profile

then in the file profile.ini the instructions said I should change the path= line to the new location. Also it said if you are using a non relative pathname, the direction of the slashes may be relevant.

changing ISrelative=1 to isrelative=0

save profiles.ini and restart firefox

K this is what I did but I still cant get my profile(my old bookmarks) to show up I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

[General]

StartWithLastProfile=0

[Profile0]

Name=37rma7aq.akaveli

IsRelative=1

Path=Profiles/37rma7aq.akaveli

This file up top is located in my profiles.ini

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Hello Networking. I?m not sure if i understand your question, but it goes any way. Paste your old profile in the directory C:\documents and settings\my username\application data\Mozilla\Firefox\profile than do menu start-run- and write "firefox -p" without quotes, navigate to the old profile folder, and choose it to be the first profile to run with your browser. And all your bookmarks and add-ons will be loaded in the next time you open firefox.

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Hello Networking. I?m not sure if i understand your question, but it goes any way. Paste your old profile in the directory C:\documents and settings\my username\application data\Mozilla\Firefox\profile than do menu start-run- and write "firefox -p" without quotes, navigate to the old profile folder, and choose it to be the first profile to run with your browser. And all your bookmarks and add-ons will be loaded in the next time you open firefox.

I'll try that thx

I recently formated my pc, and I backed my firefix bookmarks and other stuff. Now I'm trying to incorporate my old bookmarks into the new firefox bookmarks so I can use my previously saved bookmark files.

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very simple.. :whistle:

locate bookmarks.html file from your firefox backup and overwrite the file in your new installation folder.

For me the file is here:

C:\Users\Piggy\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\8xf641zz.default\bookmarks.html

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