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Fabrux
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Say, for instance, you had a huge stash of bookmarks in Firefox. Then, your hard drive crashes. You didn't get the chance to export all your bookmarks to a handy HTML file. But, you did manage to pull the data from your crashed harddrive, including the entire XP Documents and Settings folder. Would the bookmarks be stored anywhere in there?

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Daniel Butler
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Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data [its hidden]\Mozilla

You want the profile folder, probably *stringofnumbersandletters*.default. If you copy it over to the profiles folder in your new installation, and edit the .ini file there with the name of the new folder, it should load all your old stuff - bookmarks, settings, extensions.

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B.J.
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More specifically:
C:\Documents and Settings\(Username)\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\(stringof#s&As).default

If you just want the bookmarks instead of all that other stuff, the bookmarks.html file is in that folder.

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Lee
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Or you could copy the folder "C:\Documents and Settings\YourID\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ru6615h.default\bookmarkbackups" and point the Restore feature (from Import & Backup in the Library/Organise Bookmarks feature) at it.

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Fabrux
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Kickass! Thanks, all! [Big Grin]

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Daniel Butler
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BTW, there's an extension called FEBE that you can schedule to run whenever you want which backs up your themes and extensions into .jar and .xpi files respectively, in (if you so choose) datestamped folders, so you can restore them later if something tragic happens.
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