On 08-05-2008 17:49 CET, desertgal composed this enchanting statement:
> I had to drag out my laptop due to a pc problem & tried to restore FF
> profile, now I have nothing. I had backed up the profile a few days
> before pc crash cause I was afraid something bad was going to happen.
> I used MozBackup 1.4.7 to backup to external hard drive, used the
> restore function in MB & now FF is messed up,no bookmarks,no personal
> toolbar folders, etc.. Everything shows up in the profile folder, but
> FF apparently doesn't "see" it. Using FF 2.0.14 on a WinXP machine.
> It;s probably something simple, but I can't figure it out.
>
> Thanks
> Nancy
>
You'll have to make 'profiles.ini', a kind of profile index, to link to
your restored profile, in stead of the new default profile. Just a
matter of careful renaming, I think.
Besides, it is possible that some files, that require write access, are
restored as read only. You'll have to change the file attribute for those.

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Kind regards,
Melchert

(MacOS 10.3.9 / Firefox 2.0, Thunderbird 2.0)

Melchert Fruitema wrote:
> On 08-05-2008 17:49 CET, desertgal composed this enchanting statement:
>> I had to drag out my laptop due to a pc problem & tried to restore FF
>> profile, now I have nothing. I had backed up the profile a few days
>> before pc crash cause I was afraid something bad was going to
>> happen. I used MozBackup 1.4.7 to backup to external hard drive,
>> used the restore function in MB & now FF is messed up,no bookmarks,no
>> personal toolbar folders, etc.. Everything shows up in the profile
>> folder, but FF apparently doesn't "see" it. Using FF 2.0.14 on a
>> WinXP machine. It;s probably something simple, but I can't figure it
>> out.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Nancy
>>
> You'll have to make 'profiles.ini', a kind of profile index, to link
> to your restored profile, in stead of the new default profile. Just a
> matter of careful renaming, I think.
> Besides, it is possible that some files, that require write access,
> are restored as read only. You'll have to change the file attribute
> for those.
>
Thanks for the reply.
The profile appears to have restored to the original folder, just
replaced the older files so do I need to have the profiles.ini? I
checked some of the files & none are showing as read only. I tried
creating a new profile & coping the files there, then starting FF with
the new profile but that didn't work either. I start FF from Profile
Manager since there are two of us using the browser.

On 08-05-2008 18:38 CET, desertgal composed this enchanting statement:
>
> Melchert Fruitema wrote:
>> On 08-05-2008 17:49 CET, desertgal composed this enchanting statement:
>>> I had to drag out my laptop due to a pc problem & tried to restore
>>> FF profile, now I have nothing. I had backed up the profile a few
>>> days before pc crash cause I was afraid something bad was going to
>>> happen. I used MozBackup 1.4.7 to backup to external hard drive,
>>> used the restore function in MB & now FF is messed up,no
>>> bookmarks,no personal toolbar folders, etc.. Everything shows up in
>>> the profile folder, but FF apparently doesn't "see" it. Using FF
>>> 2.0.14 on a WinXP machine. It;s probably something simple, but I
>>> can't figure it out.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Nancy
>>>
>> You'll have to make 'profiles.ini', a kind of profile index, to link
>> to your restored profile, in stead of the new default profile. Just a
>> matter of careful renaming, I think.
>> Besides, it is possible that some files, that require write access,
>> are restored as read only. You'll have to change the file attribute
>> for those.
>>
> Thanks for the reply.
> The profile appears to have restored to the original folder, just
> replaced the older files so do I need to have the profiles.ini?

No. That should be fine.

> I checked some of the files & none are showing as read only. I tried
> creating a new profile & coping the files there, then starting FF with
> the new profile but that didn't work either. I start FF from Profile
> Manager since there are two of us using the browser.
>
That should be fine, too. Have a look at 'Restoring a profile backup' in
this Mozilla support article, it may possibly help to find what went wrong:

.

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Kind regards,
Melchert

(MacOS 10.3.9 / Firefox 2.0, Thunderbird 2.0)

On 08.05.2008 17:49, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused desertgal to
generate the following:? :
> I had to drag out my laptop due to a pc problem & tried to restore FF
> profile, now I have nothing. I had backed up the profile a few days
> before pc crash cause I was afraid something bad was going to happen. I
> used MozBackup 1.4.7 to backup to external hard drive, used the restore
> function in MB & now FF is messed up,no bookmarks,no personal toolbar
> folders, etc.. Everything shows up in the profile folder, but FF
> apparently doesn't "see" it. Using FF 2.0.14 on a WinXP machine. It;s
> probably something simple, but I can't figure it out.
>
> Thanks
> Nancy
>
>


this was posted here a few days ago - may help you to find things:
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile

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