How to retrieve cookies deleted by mistake
I was trying to delete a particular third-party cookie. Instead of clicking on the 'delete selected cookie', I clicked on remove them all. I would like to get the cookies back so I can go back and just delete the ones I don't want. I have not closed my browser, and won't until I hear back. Thank you!
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Hi waverlytrash, I am sorry, once they have been deleted this cannot be undone.
Windows may have created a backup of your cookies.sqlite database during system updates or backups. I'm not sure it makes sense to look for a potentially week-old file, but if you're curious...
This is trickier on Windows 8 than on Windows 7, and you might benefit from using a third party utility. These were mentioned in another thread:
Or... I read about a roundabout way to get Previous Versions on the Properties dialog in Windows 8. I can't test this myself, but here's what you do:
In the address bar of your Windows Explorer dialog, replace the current path with the following and press Enter:
\\localhost\c$
Then click at the end and tack on the following (with your username) and press Enter:
\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
That should get you in the vicinity of your profile folder. Double-click into that and right-click cookies.sqlite > Properties > Previous Versions to see what might be available. To avoid corruption or crashing, please restore to a different location, exit Firefox, rename the current cookies.sqlite to something like cookies.20150521 and only then copy the old cookies.sqlite into the profile folder.
由 jscher2000 - Support Volunteer 於
Note that easiest to prevent such a mistake is to use the Delete key to remove selected cookies and not click the button with the mouse.