A bad synchronisation has replaced my profile with incorrect information. How can I get it back?

I turned on sync on my computer at home without realizing that I implement a sync account for my work computer. Both computers have _very_ different bookmarks and login/password data. Before her, I realized, my home computer profile has been replaced with the profile of my work. My bad for the backup does not my profile, but here I am. I will lose physical access to that computer for four months on 10/23, so I'll try to get back to the former State. How can I do this? I am wary to try a reset, see how I screwed up my system.

My original goal was to have two profiles on my work computer, one for home, for work, and the two synchronized according to the device name.

A big thank you to all those who can help.

Ben

Normally the data would be merged between connected devices.

You should be able to restore the bookmarks from a backup JSON (.json or tablet .jsonlz4) in the folder bookmarkbackups.

If you have lost the password then try to see if you still the signons.sqlite (and key3db) in the Firefox profile folder to see if you can make Firefox reimport bookmarks from this file.

32 of Firefox and later versions store the passwords in the file logins.json in the profile folder and no longer use the file signons.sqlite.
If you have the file signons.sqlite which has been used in Firefox 31 and more, then you could try to recover the passwords stored in this file (you lose passwords saved in Firefox 32).
You can force Firefox to re-import the passwords in the file signons.sqlite and regenerate the logins.json file.

  • reset the signon.importedFromSqlite pref on the topic: config page by default via the context menu
  • Delete the logins.json file in the closed Firefox with Firefox profile folder

When you restart Firefox, then you should have the pref signon.importedFromSqlite with the value set to true and you should have the passwords into password manager, unless he could have errors.

You can use this button to go to the Firefox profile folder currently in use:

  • Help > troubleshooting information > profile directory: see file (Linux: open the directory;) Mac: View in the Finder)

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