Greetings wise wizards of EE:
I recently helped a friend reformat her HP Pavilion Windows Vista laptop. Before doing so, I backed up her ENTIRE hard drive onto an external hard drive of mine, using a cool program called Retrospect. However, I wasn't aware that she uses Mozilla Firefox exclusively, so I didn't take the precaution of exporting her Firefox bookmarks before the reformat. Whoops.
The reformat finished without a hitch, and I've got her entire system backup and reconstructed just the way she wants, except for the Mozilla Firefox bookmarks. I have searched through the backup data I created for her, in the C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/defaults/profiles folder, and did indeed find a bookmarks.html file, but after copying it onto her laptop, and then importing it into her Firefox browser, the bookmarks are empty.
I've also turned "Show hidden files and folders", and looked in her backup data (on the external hard drive) in what was: C:/Users/HERNAME/AppData/L
ocal/Mozil
la Firefox for a bookmarks.html file, but found none.
Finally, I even copied both of the above Mozilla Firefox folders in her backup data, and PASTED them in the appropriate location on her laptop hard drive, overwriting her current Mozilla files (with Firefox closed when I did so), and then opened Firefox. The bookmarks are still missing in action.
I am hoping that I simply missed something. I know this would have been a snap, had I taken the precaution of exporting her bookmarks, but alas, only now am I none the wiser. It makes sense to me that the browser stored the bookmarks SOMEWHERE on her old hard drive, which I have a complete copy of.
My question is: Is there someway of retrieving her Mozilla Firefox bookmarks, even though I haven't exported them?
Many thanks in advance,
Zovoth
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