At the bottom of the next screen you can specify the location of the backup file ("*.pcv") that will be created.After downloading and installing MozBackup, launch the utility, choose the "Backup" option and follow the instructions.If Thunderbird is running, exit the application.5 How to set the default folder for backup files.Its recommended that you verify that you can restore a backup it creates before relying upon it. While Mozbackup is extremely popular in the forums, it's no longer maintained. The beta doesn't seem to have that problem. Mozbackup 1.5.1 usually works fine but a few users have had problems where it doesn't backup everything it is supposed to. Use Mozbackup 1.5.2 Beta 1 (there is a download link for it in the News section) rather than the version available at the normal download link. It can be downloaded from the MozBackup homepage, where additional MozBackup documentation is also available. MozBackup can also be used to back up and restore Firefox, Mozilla Suite, and Netscape 7 profiles. It works by backing up a Thunderbird profile into a single file (named "*.pcv"), which can then be restored on the same Windows computer or a different one. MozBackup is a standalone utility (for Windows only) rather than a Thunderbird extension. For the rest of us, we’ll confirm our profile and its folder before backing up.This article was originally written for Thunderbird but it also applies to Firefox and Mozilla Suite. If you know exactly which profile you’ll be tampering with, along with its corresponding folder, you can jump straight to the backup. Unless you have a custom FF setup and/or a custom windows configuration, your profile folder will always be found in this location:Ĭ:\Users\*YOUR USER NAME*\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ OK, we all got stuff to do, right? So let’s get it done. If you’d like to know everything about your FF profile, check out this guide here.
I won’t get into the explanation of why you should do this or what data is included in this profile backup. So this is a great place to start.Ĭreating a Firefox backup is super simple. For many users, more data is saved online and in their browser than on their local devices. It’s also something that most users neglect. In the computer world, having backups of nearly everything (Including Firefox profiles) is ultra critical if you value your work and wish to take precautionary measures against disaster.
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