My PC died, so I have a new one. Here is my issue. I had a ton of links in Firefox on my old pc, and I did not sync my browser because shut up, that’s why. I have my old HD’s, and I installed my data drive in the new computer, but the boot drive from my old computer was a 120 gig SSD. I tried to load it using a blacx, but because it was a boot drive, it was unreadable on my pc. However, I tried on my mac laptop, and I can see everything on my ssd, but I can not find the location of the hyperlinks. Would they be hidden?
Since both mac and pc are involved here, hopefully you idiots won’t start another one of those damned flame wars.
And yes, I am aware that the person begging for help because of his own foolishness should not be calling other people idiots.
hellslittlestangel
Firefox links should be in a folder called Bookmarks.htm
raven
Profiles – Where Firefox stores your bookmarks, passwords and other user data
All of the changes you make in Firefox, like your home page, what toolbars you use, saved passwords and your bookmarks, are all stored in a special folder, called a profile. Your profile folder is stored in a separate place from the Firefox program so that, if something ever goes wrong with Firefox, your information will still be there. It also means you can uninstall Firefox without losing your settings and you don’t have to reinstall Firefox to clear your information or troubleshoot a proble
SteveMoody
This is the usual path for storage of the bookmarks, I believe (haven’t personally confirmed, but found in a helpful article via Google).
C:\Users\***\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\*****.default\bookmarkbackups
the first *** will be your user name the second *** is a random number
the bookmarks are stored as json files
With the disk mounted on your Mac, just click on the disk, then Users, etc. etc following the path above.
Let me know if I can be of more help: steve at moodys dot org
Chad
this should help.
On Windows Vista and above, profile folders are in this location, by default:
C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\.
If you are in windows, thats usually a hidden folder, but if you are accessing it with a mac it shouldnt matter.
Good luck!
John Cole +0
How do I find appdata? Is it hidden? How do I unhide a windows file on a blackx drive from a Mac?
Comrade Mary
There’s a complete guide here that assumes you’re running Windows. From the Mac, search for Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles and then look inside for bookmarks, etc. as itemized in the link.
Redshift
Bookmarks are stored in a profile folder in appdata under the User directory, if I remember correctly. It’s not where the program is (because changes there require admin privileges starting with XP, iirc.)
David Koch
This image of my directory might help
Yoodow
John,
Try this: amazon.com/Kingwin-Adapter-Inches-Drive-Back-Up/dp/B0019HLE7Q
This is a USB 2.0 to SATA and IDE Adapter for 2.5 Inches and 3.5 Inches Hard Drives
max
What everybody else said, Cole, but you need the contents of the bookmarkbackups folder only. Alternatively, you can just copy the entire damn profile folder, shut down firefox, and copy the contents of the old profile over the new and you’ll be right back where you started. (You can copy them the profile folder to the Mac, and then copy it from there to the PC.)
You will need to be able to escalate privilege to do this of course, or you won’t be able to get into the roaming folder from your user directory.
max
[‘So you’ll have to edit security on \users\%username%\appdata .’]
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
We’d think you didn’t love us anymore if you didn’t call us idiots to warn us against engaging on the the most heated subject of disagreement.
John Cole +0
This is all I have showing (underneath the fold of the original post). This is my mac hooked up to a blackx holding my windows ssd. This is the mozilla folder.
Omnes Omnibus
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
Nickelback vs. Creed? Or is it Journey vs. REO Speedwagon? We are talking worst rock band ever, right?
jesdynf
You may or may not find MozBackup to be of use. I’m not sure how well it deals with profiles that aren’t in the right place, but if it can handle that you’re golden.
PaulW
Don’t forget to add the links for Free Comic Book Day, NaNoWriMo, Girl Genius, Devils Panties, Sinfest, io9, Flickfilosopher.com, and Deviant Art
John Cole +0
Ok. Let’s back this truck up. How do I make sure I can see the data on my pc when I connect the solid state drive to it via blacx?
Bobby B
This site makes my Chrome crash every time (I’m on Explorer currently).
Karmus
I don’t go there much anymore, but in MS-Windows for forever there’s been an option(s) in the Explorer (folders) option menu to allow the luser to view all hidden thingies, files, directories (folders), etc. That’s always been a good thing to enable when futzing one’s system. IDK though, I’m so old I’d tell you to get off my lawn if I actually had one.
Howard Beale IV
They should not be hidden. And it should be readable on your PC, regardless if it was a boot drive or not-if you were running Win7 or later, you would have a 100 MB hidden partition which houses the recovery partition, and the rest of the SSD would be the main C: drive.
The Mozilla stuff would be stored under the Users/”userid”/AppData/Roaming folder.
AppData is hidden.
Hunter Gathers
Laptop or desktop?
seaboogie
John – HELP – site breakdown!!!! Suddenly it went all Greek* and people are speaking in a language I don’t understand. While you are sorting yourselves out, here is something I discovered today that I am plugged into right now (with an actual plug and don’t go throwing all of your strange language at me):
youtube.com/watch?v=qiv-2YdXENc
*I guess it’s all Geek to me
PlanetPundit (used to be Sir Laffs-a-Lot)
I’ll bet Lovey knows how to do it; she’s a smart girl. Have her make a quick visit. :)
Hunter Gathers
You could just just throw the old SSD into the new pc and boot from it, then copy the bookmarks to a flash drive and then take the old SSD back out. Physically a pain in the ass, but it’s better than trying to dig through folders (IMHO), plus it’ll piss you off in such a manner that you’ll never forget to save that type of data ever again.
Hunter Gathers
Or use a LINUX box to view the contents of the old SSD.
Karmus
@Hunter Gathers: Yep, I sometimes use a rescue CD/DVD (or “live distro” or whatever the kewl kids call it) in these types of situations.
dexwood
And yes, I am aware that the person begging for help because of his own foolishness should not be calling other people idiots.
A bit long for a bumper sticker, but words to live by.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Omnes Omnibus: Ha ha ha. i wonder what the correlation between each side of
and people who worship at the foot of the great turtleneck and people who don’t. But we mustn’t start a flame war. It would be an interesting comparison, I think. Then if you consider correlation with Oxford comma pro and con as well, it could get wild.
Karmus
VI VS. EMACS!!!111
Omnes Omnibus
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): I go with all four bands suck to a degree that ranking is impossible. I own an MacBook and a PC. I am, however, strongly in favor of the Oxford comma – one of a few disagreements I have with Vampire Weekend.
kindness
Can’t flame John though. Has both. My primarys are mac but I have an old Win 95 pc buried in the office behind stuff. Once in a blue moon you get stuff that will only run on a pc. My problem now is my pc is so old that whole scenerio is pretty iffy at best now.
Pogonip
I have computer questions too. If I’m going to write the award-winning universally offensive science fiction novel I need to know how to do so on a computer. How do i make the page heading and set it to paginate? With my old word processor, at the first page you would type Pogonip/Dogs in Space/”1″. After the author’s last name and the title the quotation marks alerted the machine to number pages consecutively. How do you make footnotes? When you submit your ms., do you do it on a flash drive, or by e-mail. or do you still send in a real live ms? If anyone has a reference where i can find answers to these questions please post it.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Omnes Omnibus: I agree that the bands all suck to such a degree that there is no reasonable approach to ranking. And even if there were, life’s too short. I also strongly favor the Oxford comma, and I own no Apple products.
Omnes Omnibus
@Pogonip: Are you using Word? If so, what version?
Origuy
To display hidden folders, open a Windows Explorer window (My Computer works), choose the Tools menu item Folder Options, and click the View tab. Select the “Show hidden folders, files, and drives” option and click OK.
Amir Khalid
I have only one piece of advice: no matter what problems you’re having with your PC, don’t ever be this guy.
peej
To get back to the topic at hand, The appdata folder is a hidden folder (the files under it are not).
Redshift
@John Cole +0:
Forgive me if I’m incorrect, but that looks like the Mozilla folder under Program Files. AppData and the profile aren’t there, they’re under \Users\username.
Central Planning
@John Cole:
Too late. You should have gone with linux.
Gin & Tonic
@Karmus: Dude. Get a grip. vi vs emacs. (and the answer is emacs, obvs)
draftmama
Firefox sucks.
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic: Are you writing in Ukrainian? And, if so, where did you learn it, you fascist?
Gin & Tonic
@Omnes Omnibus: That post was in English, comrade.
Gian
for win 7 find the “tools” pull down menu when using “file explorer” or whatever they call the program used to browse the drive
find
“folder options”
find “advanced”
check the box for “show hidden”
had to do it to find appdata to do the mods for minecraft for my kids. took about 5 minutes to fuss through it.
You seem to have more frequent computer failures than average, and more pets than average. Have you considered getting cases with air filter you can easily remove and clean of pet hair/and dust?
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic: You just keep telling yourself that.
Karmus
@Gin & Tonic: No, no, EMACS: “Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping.”
You’re welcome ;-)
nickrud
I think this llink will give you the info you need: support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1003872
Gian
Saw this and my first thought was that Mitt was in Ohio, but it was someone else:
examiner.com/article/van-with-4-caged-puppies-on-roof-drives-70mph-scared-puppies-prompt-911-calls
“According to Sergeant Kris Beitzel, the father had no idea that keeping the puppies caged on top of his van was wrong.”
nickrud
meh, after looking at that one a bit more it’s not as helpful as support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/971302
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@John Cole +0: Some of the folks here might be confused by your mentioning a BlacX. I’ve got a couple as well – handy beasties.
I have PCs and Macs but haven’t tried to do what you’re doing. This page should apply to expose the hidden Profile folder on the Winders drive. I think.
HTH.
Cheers,
Scott.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Amir Khalid: He should have taken it to this guy… ;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
srv
I can’t believe people still by PCs. Oh, yeah, teh games.
BillinGlendaleCA
@kindness: Use virtualbox(or VMWare player) for windows on your mac. I use it for mac and linux on my PC.
BillinGlendaleCA
John, if you put the ssd into the pc or in the usb/sata thingie you will need to mount(via disk management) and take ownership of the NTFS volume. After that you should see [drive letter]:users…(the path that others have mentioned).
Pete Johnson
On a Mac, you can go to any folder you want, whether it is visible or invisible, by hitting Command-Shift-G (Go To Folder…) and typing in the directory name. Once you type part of the name, you can hit Tab and it will auto-complete the rest. In your case, you would want to go to
/Volumes/{Drive Name}/Users/{Username}/AppData
Once you are inside AppData, you should be able to find a Mozilla or Firefox folder, which will contain a folder for your profile. Find your Bookmarks.html file in there.
Deb
Just for you this morning, John, in case you still haven’t gotten your computer issues resolved:
Colorado Man ‘Fed Up With Fighting’ His Computer Shoots It 8 Times
Pogonip
@Omnes Omnibus: We have to get a new computer anyway so it’ll be whatever the current version is when they go on sale in August.
Ken T
I literally could not understand a single word you wrote after “My PC died, so I got a new one”. God, I feel old.
My Truth Hurts
Did you try restarting?
jwalden91lx
There is a file on your SSD called “places.sqlite” that is located in this folder: Users\”YourUserName”\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\cscexsnn.default\
I think you should be able to copy that file from the SSD to the same location on your new hard drive, and FF should open with your old bookmarks, etc. It doesn’t look like the current version of FF has a bookmarks.html or anything like it. At least mine (version 36.0.1) doesn’t.
Here’s the link for where I got it: support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/833585