Re: How to import Firefox bookmarks from old PC to new one?

Yes - the problem has now been resolved.  THANKS very much!

On Friday, July 23, 2021 at 9:29:52 AM UTC-4, Paul wrote:
> Lee wrote: 
> > I just discovered that my bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox is mostly empty. I thought I had already managed to import or migrate them from my old HP PC (Windows 7) to my new Dell PC (Windows 10) in Firefox, but maybe I forgot or somehow made an error or mistake. So I tried copying & pasting my old Firefox profile, but still nothing shows up in bookmarks. 
> > 
> > Why not? What am I doing wrong? The "import bookmarks" function in Firefox doesn't seem to do anything either. PLEASE HELP!
> Normally, 
> 
> 1) On old PC, Export Bookmarks 
> 2) On new PC, Import Bookmarks 
> 
> But there are other combinations for less-ready situations. 
> 
> Firefox keeps a folder of .jsonlz4 files. This is JSON ( 
> presumably Javascript lines of some sort) which has been 
> compressed with LZ4 (the LZ4 was only used, to obfuscate 
> the users bookmarks, and it's a silly waste of human 
> neurons to have done that). 
> 
> In any case, you can try this. The tool knows how to open 
> the file, so no rocket science is required :-) It's when 
> humans want to look at the file, that it sucks as a format. 
> 
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1138179 
> 
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/restore-bookmarks-from-backup-or-move-them 
> 
> Import,Export = done with HTML files 
> Backup,Restore = done with JSONLZ4 files <=== Place old JSONLZ4 file where tool 
> can find it... Presumably in the 
> new profile folder, same relative place. 
> 
> Using the search on your file system, you look 
> for "profiles.ini". Many Mozilla tools use such 
> things. When the search results come back, you look 
> for the one with Firefox in the pathname. The Profiles 
> themselves are stored very near to where the 
> "profiles.ini" is located. 
> 
> A good tool for such a search, is Agent Ransack. 
> The Free version is good enough for this job. The 
> Free version uses brute force search on Windows 
> (Linux has good enough search in its file explorer). 
> 
> https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/ 
> 
> If you open the profiles.ini with Notepad or a text editor, 
> it shows the path to the profile as either a relative 
> or an absolute reference. Relative means, 
> relative to the level of the file system where the 
> profiles.ini is stored. 
> 
> On Windows, people usually get flummoxed on the 
> "hidden" Appdata folder in their home directory. 
> To work with Appdata, you can make it visible. 
> 
> Path = xxx\yyy\zzz\www\mmm\nnn\Profiles.ini 
> ^ 
> | 
> +---- a hidden foldername here, might 
> prevent easy work with Profiles.ini 
> 
> The usual recipe is to modify the File Explorer view 
> to expose hidden objects. Which is not really all that 
> convenient as a workaround, but here is an example. 
> You use the Folder Options dialog and click the radio 
> button to make certain item types visible. This is 
> only necessary when the user tries to walk down the 
> file tree to AppData, then Roaming, while trying 
> to find the Mozilla and Firefox folders. 
> 
> https://www.ionos.ca/digitalguide/server/configuration/show-windows-appdata-folder/ 
> 
> Anyway, I hope that's enough ideas to get you started. 
> 
> Paul