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Find your [[Profile Folder | profile folder]]. To completely back up your profile folder, copy your profile folder to another location. | Find your [[Profile Folder | profile folder]]. To completely back up your profile folder, copy your profile folder to another location. Details for Thunderbird are [[Thunderbird : FAQs : Backing Up and Restoring | here]]. | ||
For a more limited backup ('''not''' adequate for the Mozilla Suite or Thunderbird if you are using either for email), copy the following files and place them in a safe location. Some of these files may not exist (that is OK). | For a more limited backup ('''not''' adequate for the Mozilla Suite or Thunderbird if you are using either for email), copy the following files and place them in a safe location. Some of these files may not exist (that is OK). | ||
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* <tt>signons.txt</tt> — Saved passwords | * <tt>signons.txt</tt> — Saved passwords | ||
* <tt>key3.db</tt> — Supplements password file. Needs to be copied along with signons.txt. | * <tt>key3.db</tt> — Supplements password file. Needs to be copied along with signons.txt. | ||
===External Links=== | ===External Links=== | ||
Revision as of 15:20, 15 January 2005
Find your profile folder. To completely back up your profile folder, copy your profile folder to another location. Details for Thunderbird are here.
For a more limited backup (not adequate for the Mozilla Suite or Thunderbird if you are using either for email), copy the following files and place them in a safe location. Some of these files may not exist (that is OK).
- bookmarks.html — Bookmarks.
- prefs.js — Current user preferences
- user.js — User preferences (overrides prefs.js)
- cookies.txt — Cookies
- hostperm.1 — Cookies/images/xpinstall permissions list
- signons.txt — Saved passwords
- key3.db — Supplements password file. Needs to be copied along with signons.txt.
External Links
- MozBackup utility.
- Bookmark Backup extension for Firefox.
- More comprehensive list of profile files — May be a bit outdated.
