On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 16:18:44 -0700 walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > I suspect most people don't even know firefox has a ProfileManager, > but I'm here to warn you not to use it. It just cost me years of > bookmarks and saved passwords. > > For testing purposes I invoked firefox-bin with the -ProfileManager > flag (don't do this, it's broken!) and created a fresh firefox profile > with the name "temp" as I've been doing for years. > > I ran the "temp" profile while doing my testing, quit firefox and then > re-invoked firefox with the -ProfileManager flag and used it to delete > the "temp" profile because I didn't need it any more. > > Unfortunately, deleting "temp" also deleted the "default" profile I've > been using for years, which had all of my bookmarks and saved > passwords and maybe other stuff I haven't even thought about yet.
I'm sorry you had this trouble, and I can't explain it. I've used the profile manager to delete temporary profiles at least once a twice a week for the past many years without problems. I compile firefox instead of using firefox-bin, but that shouldn't make any difference. I guess you've already looked, but just in case, make sure the default profile directory is really gone. If you're very lucky, only the profile.ini file got corrupted.
