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Deleted places sqlite, now firefox wont start

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hmuchmo1
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I noticed the bookmarks were all messed up, first I tried to restore them and the cpu went to 100% for over 10 minutes and not responding. Then I found an article that said to delete places.sqlite and restart. Now the same thing, cpu has been at 100% for over 15 minutes and is no longer responding. The main screen does not come up at all now.

I copied the old places file back in, it starts, but the still can restore the bookmarks.

I noticed the bookmarks were all messed up, first I tried to restore them and the cpu went to 100% for over 10 minutes and not responding. Then I found an article that said to delete places.sqlite and restart. Now the same thing, cpu has been at 100% for over 15 minutes and is no longer responding. The main screen does not come up at all now. I copied the old places file back in, it starts, but the still can restore the bookmarks.

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FredMcD
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Hold down the Shift key (On Mac the Options key) while starting Firefox to start in Safe Mode. See if the problem is still there.

hmuchmo1
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FF does start like that, but now all the bookmarks are gone. The places.sqlite file is now 10.5M, before it was almost 50M, but that too is gone.

I tried to manually import one of the old json files in a new profile, but spiked the CPU again. Guessing the json is corrupt and will have to find an old html backup.

Glamdring7
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I hope these articles can help you.

Recover lost or missing Bookmarks

Profiles - Where Firefox stores your bookmarks, passwords and other user data

Recover important data from an old profile