Windows 10: How to restore Win10 20H2 Firefox profile from Ubuntu backup

I'm a former Windows user (12 years with Ubuntu) thinking about migrating back to Win10. I have my Firefox default- release profile backed up daily on a usb hard drive. I've tried copying the contents of my profile to users/Lou/appdata/mozilla/xxxxxxxx.default-release with no joy at all. Obviously, not the right way to go - will someone tell me where I'm going wrong? TIA for any help...

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Missing Profile WIN10

Hi Ralph,



Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

I apologize for the inconvenience caused. We are glad to help you.



I request you to check if your profile is listed under users list or not. Follow the below step and check:

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  Press Windows key + R.
  
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  Type netplwiz in the box and hit enter.
  

If it is not listed, I suggest you to restore the system to the previous point where PC was working normally. To do so kindly follow the below given steps:

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  Press Windows + I key and click on Update and security.
  
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  Click on Recovery, and click on
  Restart under Advance startup.
  
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  In the Windows Recovery Environment, on the Choose an option screen, click
  'Troubleshoot'.
  
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  Click, Advanced Options and then click on
  System Restore.
  
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  Follow the onscreen suggestion to restore your PC to earlier point.
  

Hope this helps. Do contact us for further queries. We will be happy to assist you.



Regards,

Jenith

 

Free hard drive backup/restore program?

I am looking for a free (freeware) program that will back up and restore a hard drive. I'm looking to clone a few external hard drives. If the program will backup the used space instead of the whole drive this will be awesome! Thanks for any suggestions.

 

Add-Ons for Firefox crash since update to 80

I left Firefox open over night and attempted to login to LastPass this morning - all the addons crashed. I had Firefox Task Manager open at the time and before attempting the login all addons were in the list and not using very much resources. After attempting login, all of the addons disappeared from the Firefox Task Manager list.

I will try the additional suggestions.

If I want to try a new profile without losing my saved/sync profile (and hopefully with the option of syncing my data back into the new profile) what steps should I take? Or is it just a given that if it is profile corruption, the sync profile is junk...?

Thanks!