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Lost my Firefox profile

I can’t believe I have to start my real blogging career with this post. I’ve just lost my Firefox profile! And that in a strange way! I usually put my Firefox profile folder in a separate directory instead of the default location. I keep a primary folder in my non-OS D: drive which contains all the different profile folders. The structure looks like this: “D:\firefox_profiles\kayes\”.

‘kayes’ was the only profile I had at that time. Anyway, I was creating another profile and I mistakenly selected “D:\firefox_profiles\” as the location to save the profile files whereas I should have created a new folder under ‘firefox_profiles’ and selected that. As soon as I finished creating the profile, I noticed what I did wrong and wanted to start over. So I deleted the newly created profile ‘Default User’ and that’s when I made another, this time bigger, mistake.

I deleted the profile with all the contents and since the newly created profile files were to be saved under “D:\firefox_profiles\”, the whole ‘firefox_profiles’ folder got deleted with my regular profile ‘kayes’. It took me a moment to realize that and I just kept sitting like a dumb. All my bookmarks, saved passwords, plugins, opened tabs… all gone! But fortunately I could recover the bookmarks which I periodically took backup of as HTML files for another purpose. So all is not lost I guess. Happy blogging!