Recover Mozilla Firefox bookmarks to its location!

[metabeta]

I h' already mentioned another problem and it got fixed. So bare with me. Its the same problem or related to this problem.

This time its about Mozilla Firefox. So the problem wiped my entire partition. So i had to start from scratch.

I did h' a backup of bookmarks made in Ext HDD using MozBackup. And i recovered it.

But the bookmarks had a minimal data, and it contained some pages which were missing. It was at least 2 months old.

So my plan is to recover from that image (made by Image for DOS 3.6)(Payed software).

Well this is where the problem lies. I tried to mount the image from TBView 4.63.0. I was thinking if i could mount it and then copy the files folders and then paste it in

the default location. Which would show my entire bookmarks. I am confused which folder to replace. Or Is it even possible.

DO U THINK IT  POSSIBLE.

Expecting reply. Good day.

 

 

 

 

[CatMan]

Bookmarks are stored in Places.sqlite

 

c:\Users\xxxxx\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxxxxx\Places.sqlite

 

[metabeta]

On 7/5/2025 at 5:35 PM, CatMan said:

Bookmarks are stored in Places.sqlite

 

c:\Users\xxxxx\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxxxxx\Places.sqlite

 

I did that and it didn't work. Any suggestion from OP

i noticed that there were two folders:

1.C:\Users\******\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
2.C:\Users\******\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

Ur suggestion , didn't work.

 

Edited July 6, 2025 by metabeta

[kyber]

in line with what @CatMan suggested

 

Please visit here : ---> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data

& here:  ---> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile

 

Which I believe are latest information and you were using the latest version of firefox

 

Regards

Edited July 6, 2025 by kyber

[Ecarion]

For the record, there is one backup create almost every day :

• 1) Open the page "about:support"
• 2) At the line "Profile Folder", then click on the button called "Open Folder"
• 3) Go to the folder "bookmarkbackups"
• 4) Select (recopy) the last .jsonlz4 file (to restore the bookmarks)

PS : As always, the file called "profiles.ini" can be use to locate the "Profile Folder" (of course when you are familiar with one language, you can create a little script to open directly).

For what reason Mozilla doesn't use the same ? None clues (after several years) but when you saved your bookmarks manually, it will be in a regular ".json file" (not the same size)

[metabeta]

On 7/7/2025 at 12:46 AM, Ecarion said:

For the record, there is one backup create almost every day :

• 1) Open the page "about:support"
• 2) At the line "Profile Folder", then click on the button called "Open Folder"
• 3) Go to the folder "bookmarkbackups"
• 4) Select (recopy) the last .jsonlz4 file (to restore the bookmarks)

PS : As always, the file called "profiles.ini" can be use to locate the "Profile Folder" (of course when you are familiar with one language, you can create a little script to open directly).

For what reason Mozilla doesn't use the same ? None clues (after several years) but when you saved your bookmarks manually, it will be in a regular ".json file" (not the same size)

Yeah i agree to certain point. I had the entire (Firefox/Profile) C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox

But it is also essential the Profile.ini goes to Firefox folder

After copying that file along with the bookmarks. It restored the files created or other essential files and pages.

It just worked. Thank you, i wished u had posted ur reply a little earlier.

But thank u people. Goodnight.

Edited July 7, 2025 by metabeta