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    Firefox just deleted everything!?!

    It's managed to somehow get rid of all my bookmarks, my homepage(s), my links.. argh!

    But.. it's still got all my saved passwords, my browsing history and i assume the cache etc is still there. When i fired it up just now, it acted like a new install - all my plugins asked for terms and conditions acceptance, i was directed to the mozilla site.

    Any ideas what the hell just happened?

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    Re: Firefox just deleted everything!?!

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    Re: Firefox just deleted everything!?!

    It may have failed to read files in

    Documents and Settings\<UserName>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox

    Its a good directory to backup occasionally.
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    Re: Firefox just deleted everything!?!

    generally, it auto-backs up your bookmarks these days. check the prifile directory above, for a bookmarks.bak file

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    Re: Firefox just deleted everything!?!

    Quote Originally Posted by directhex View Post
    generally, it auto-backs up your bookmarks these days. check the prifile directory above, for a bookmarks.bak file
    i was hoping for a windows home server joke
    throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)

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    Re: Firefox just deleted everything!?!

    firefox done that to me last week after i updated it. luckey i backed mine up just before it.

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    Re: Firefox just deleted everything!?!

    i use FEBE Firefox Extension to backup my FF profile daily.

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