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I'm trying to transfer people from old machines over to new ones, and I was trying to debate the best way to transfer their Firefox bookmarks. I know the recommended method by Mozilla is to just create a backup of the bookmarks and then importing them on the new machine. I want to be able to create a one-click solution if I can so my idea was to just copy the entire %appdata%/Mozilla/Firefox directory to another drive and then place it on the new machine.

I know that I'll absolutely have to grab the profiles.ini file, but are there any other pitfalls/necessary files that I've missed in doing it this way?

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  • See: Profile Backup & Moving your profile folder
    – amiregelz
    Aug 20, 2012 at 14:01
  • Well I understand how to backup the profile. I was hoping to avoid having to open firefox on each machine and rather create a script that could accomplish this. Thanks for the link though.
    – benfogel
    Aug 20, 2012 at 14:04
  • I see, what about this script? You can probably modify it a little bit to suit your needs. Also, regarding your question (any other necessary files?): You can take a look at the content of the Profile folder to make sure which files you want to backup and which files are not necessary.
    – amiregelz
    Aug 20, 2012 at 14:15
  • It looks like script is just copying the profiles directory so I think it'll work. I sure appreciate your help.
    – benfogel
    Aug 20, 2012 at 14:27
  • Report back if the script is working and achieving the goal; if so, I'll add it here as a backup.
    – amiregelz
    Aug 20, 2012 at 14:32

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Here is the command to copy the Firefox profile folder to a folder on the desktop. It is important to grab the profiles.ini file and not just the profile itself because the ini file tells firefox where the profile is located.

XCOPY "%APPDATA%\Mozilla" %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\FirefoxProfile /E /V /C /H /Y

And then to place it back on the computer:

XCOPY %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\FirefoxProfile "%APPDATA%\Mozilla" /E /V /C /H /Y

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