I just installed a Firefox Portable 25 installed on a hard drive partition as a 3rd Firefox profile, and want to transfer my Profile and settings from the Firefox Portable 25 installed on a usb drive.
Since I have 3 profiles on my main portable Apps install its a little more comlicated, so I was wondering can I just copy and paste the one I want to copy? Or should I use a program like Mozbackup?
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/
And if so what folder do i manually choose from Mozbackup? Just this folder?
X:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\Data\profile
Ive transferred and backed up firefox plenty of times with normal and portable installs.But never when dealing with multiple profiles
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Copy the whole data directory from one install to the other.
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Should I copy it and completely overwrite the DATA folder? or just copy it normally so only different (size/date) files get transferred?
Delete the target (it's a blank new profile with nothing you want in it) then copy.
Actually skip that, there's no reason to install it fresh on the destination. Just take your existing FirefoxPortable folder and copy that whole thing to your destination drive.
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OK, so I went ahead and backed up my older 25.0 install with:
Mozbackup http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/
It only required the "profile" folder
But, before I restored it to my fresh 2nd profile 25.0 install, I decided to run it once to make sure it was working. I got this error message:
"Firefox Mozilla, Portable Edition 2nd profile cannot be started. You may wish to re-install to fix this issue. (ERROR: X:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\FirefoxPortable.exe)"
I know that the Firefox Portable 2nd Profile 1.2 app installs the 2nd profile with different names to the folders and EXE to differentiate it from your main Firefox Profile such as below:
X:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable2ndProfile\FirefoxPortable2ndProfile.exe
But how do I get it to run?Since I need to have differently folders and EXE
If you have multiple profiles, you should copy your FirefoxPortable and FirefoxPortable2ndProfile directories from one place to another. You should NOT just copy the profile directory as that will break path adjustments of it.
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