My wifes compaq computer stopped working friday after 6 years. We decied that it was time for a new computer. The hard drive was not the reason for the failure. I pulled the hard drive and put it in an external encloseure that I had so that I could pull the emails and links she had saved. I have been all over the drive and searched and cannot find the the files and links. I found the old IE links she had but not the Firefox links. What file or whatever do I need to search for to find this information. Email addresses, emails and bookmarks/favorites are what I want to recover.

The operating system is windows XP
The web browser is Firefox
The email program is Thunderbird

And if I forgot anything please forgive me, this is first post on this forum. I did read the help guides.

Where does Firefox store profile?

Thunderbird profile info

Sorry, I should have searched. I did not think of that.

maddiebeagle said:Ellory beat me to posting this by 2 minutes

OP, also checkout MozBackup to keep your firefox/thunderbird info backed up on a regular basis in the future...

Good luck,

Mark

P.S. this same question gets asked routinely... Maybe we need to make a sticky for this, or add it to another existing one???

edit: just added this to the Guide to getting your files back from a broken computer.I added it to the QuickSummary in the HelpGuide sticky

obeydacracka said:Thank you very much! I did find what I was looking for.

My wife says thank you as well. That's what we're here for .... and why we make the big bucks doing this. And thank you for posting back to let us know it helped