import firefox & thunderbird profile
I used mozbackup to backup my profile on firefox & thunderbird using windows 8.1.
My computer crashed and had to get new harddrive & motherboard, have tried number of times to import my profile into your lateset firefox & thunderbird using windows 11.
The files are there but it does not show them when I try to import my profile into both programs, can you help me as I have lots of bookmarks in firefox and lots of folders in thunderbird I need to get access to.
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To what folder did you restore this backup?
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recover-user-data-missing-after-firefox-update
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-run-firefox-when-profile-missing-inaccessible
You can copy certain files with Firefox closed to the current profile folder to transfer or recover personal data. Note that best is to avoid copying a full profile folder.
You can use the button on the "Help -> More Troubleshooting Information" (about:support) page to go to the current Firefox profile folder or use the about:profiles page (Root directory).
- Help -> More Troubleshooting Information -> Profile Folder/Directory:
Windows: Open Folder; Linux: Open Directory; Mac: Show in Finder - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data
- bookmarks and history: places.sqlite
- favicons: favicons.sqlite
- bookmark backups: compressed .jsonlz4 JSON backups in the bookmarkbackups folder
- cookies.sqlite for the Cookies
- formhistory.sqlite for saved autocomplete Form Data
- logins.json (encrypted logins;32+) and key4.db (decryption key;58+) for Passwords saved in the Password Manager
key3.db support ended in 73+; to use key3.db in 58-72, make sure to remove key4.db - cert9.db (58+) for (intermediate) certificates stored in the Certificate Manager
- persdict.dat for words added to the spell checker dictionary
- permissions.sqlite for Permissions and possibly content-prefs.sqlite for other website specific data (Site Preferences)
- sessionstore.jsonlz4 for open tabs and pinned tabs (see also the sessionstore-backups folder)
Mozbackup saved my profile as Thunderbird 2023-02-09.pcv file and it says when I restored ok but nothing has happened. I need my old profile so I can reply to some email. How can I export them to the new thunderbird 102.8.0 and using windows 11
If I remember correctly then this pcv file is a ZIP archive, so you can use an archive manager to check its content and extract files.
For questions about Thunderbird, best is to ask on the Thunderbird support forum.