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Firefox profiles suddenly deleted and browser updated after reset
Hello,
After steam started acting funny I quickly rebooted the PC. Since the PC had been running for a few days lots of programs were running and I was too lazy to wait for them to shut down - so I simply reset the PC. Big mistake apparently.
Firefox, v. 3.6.25 was updated to 4.01 after the reboot and all my profiles were not visible anymore in the profile manager.
So I uninstalled 4.01 and reinstalled 3.6.25.
Here's where the "fun" starts: the old profiles are not recognized anymore in the profile manager even though they are still in AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles.
I also tried copy/pasting the contents of a profile into a new profile. Still, nothing happens when I restart the browser, no bookmarks, no addons, no browsing history etc.
Finally, I thought that all of the profiles of this user might be corrupted, so I logged in on my admin account and started firefox there (also 3.6.25 btw). This one worked fine, though it obviously was ~7-8 months outdated - not a total loss though. So I copied this profile on a USB stick and again tried a) copying it into the appdata\local\mozilla\firefox\profiles folder and b) simply copying the contents into a new profile.
Again, nothing happens with the result that nothing is recognized. This is particularly odd since I know that the admin account firefox profile works fine on the admin account AND both firefox versions (admin and user account) are versions 3.6.25.
I've already googled quite a bit but couldn't find anything.
I'm using win 7 ultimate 64 bit if that is relevant.
Any advice/assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Tom