oops(firefox help needed)

[pumpkinking]

Hi. I need some help.
I was over at ffrcade and firefox closed down on me than said that My profile (the default one) was in use. I made a new one thinking meh, whatever but now I realize its why all my bookmarks etc are gone. Can someone tell me how to change back to my old profile?

[TheRapingDragon]

Re: oops(firefox help needed)

I've heard of that before, where firefox removes all your bookmarks. All I can suggest is that from now on keep all your bookmarks also on I.E and then you can just export them from I.E and back into Firefox.

[Linkisdoomed]

Re: oops(firefox help needed)

Ok, I've had this happen before.

Go to program files and find accounts for firefox and restore your old one. I can't quite remember how to do this, but it's in your user profile if you're using Windows XP, it's different for other Windows versions and Mac.

[JKPolk]

Re: oops(firefox help needed)

if it ever happens again, just ctrl alt delete, go into processes, and end the firefox process
then start firefox like normal and everything will be kosher

[Tps222]

Re: oops(firefox help needed)

Happened to me before as well, sucks.

But ++ Cool points for you for visiting FFRcade.

[itmorr]

Re: oops(firefox help needed)

There might be another instance of Firefox running that wasn't killed. Make sure and kill it in your process list if there is one.

[pumpkinking]

Re: oops(firefox help needed)

Ok. So far I've looked around in firefoxes file but can't find much. I forgot to mention that there was a window (dialougue(sp?) box-esque thing) that opened and prompted me to change cause my old one was in use. I just made a new one so thats why all my bookmarks and whatnot are gone.
Linkisdoomed I think you might have something there but i can't figure out how to restore it. Is the accounts folder in firefoxes folder because I went there and found only profiles folder(probly what you meant). Now I'm gonna search around a bit on their site see if they have a fix but thanks for any help you may have.

ps I'm running windows xp office


EDIT: Fixed it my self but thanks for all the help. For future refrence all I had to go was close firefox completely then go start>run> type in "firefox.exe -profilemanager" (without these " things but with the space). After that all I had to do was switch to my old one and click start firefox. Now to bookmark this page... :P