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I had a PC with Windows 8 installed that had Firefox.
I decided to upgrade it to SSD, and to install Windows 10 fresh (not as upgrade) to the SSD.
The install went smoothly, with one (possibly important) detail - I used the same user name for my main user on Windows 10 and old Windows 8 (whose drive is now "D:" - I installed SSD as disk 0 before the install, and moved old HDD as disk #1)
When I installed FireFox on Windows 10, I went ahead to copy the old FF profile from Windows 8 on drive "D:\" ....
... only to find that the old profile is nowhere to be found, AND that somehow the profile in "D:\Documents and Settings" directory seems to be an alias to "C:\Documents and Settings" and not the original old profile.
Is this expected and due to the fact that my user ID is the same on both installs?
Is there a way to recover my old FireFox profile?
Hi - are you still able to boot the old Win8 installation..? If yes, then run "firefox -p" to find where the profile is located and you can the reference that location by running the same command under Win10. I suspect you may advertantly have copied the whole %userprofile% across rather than just the FF profile - which by default is created in the %userprofile% – Jim Nielsen – 2016-06-05T21:09:57.453