I'm copying my Firefox profile, do I copy everything, or just the essentals?

[Gothic Dazrael]

Thanks to a bit of a mishap involving deleting supposed corrupted extension files (extensions.ini [somehow don't have that one], extensions.cache, and extensions.rdf), none of my extentions will work. They're in the folder, but all but two of them won't show up in the Add-ons window. So should I copy everything, or just the files listed here (http://http://kb.mozillazine.org/Migrating_settings_to_a_new_profile)?

[The Irishman]

Seeing as your bookmarks, etc. are stored in the same folder as your extension files, copying everything may be a bad idea as you will just be copying your problems. the first thing I'd do is save your bookmarks as a HTML (go to the bookmarks menu -> manage Bookmarks-> import and ... ->export->export as HTML). Once you have that done, make a list of your extensions. If creating a new profile doesn't work, then you may have to re-install Firefox and just download all your extensions again. If this is the case (or you have to create a new profile), you can import your saved bookmark file at least. Hope that helps a bit :).

[Gothic Dazrael]

It does, but here's something I shold've mentioned: All the data concering the extentions is still there, and I can "reinstall" them, I just need to get Firefox to reconize they're there and get my settings back. Any help there?

[The Irishman]

Aye, that sounds like there's one or two files that have either become corrupted or have been deleted. Unfortunately I don't know how to get them back, but you can be sure you would have to know some computer programming in order to do so. You might want to search the Mozilla help forums (http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Support+Website+Forums) to see if anyone else has had the same problem (which is quite likely, given how may users there are out there). Sorry I can't offer anything better :sweat:

[Gothic Dazrael]

Any other tech help forums in mind? Those are a bit slow...

[The Irishman]

I'm afraid not. The only ones I know wouldn't have the information you need.

The Mozilla FAQ page says you should delete the files as they will be recreated when Firefox restarts. I'm sure you've probably already tries this. Other than that, I can't think of anything else.:( Keep searching though, somebody else is bound to have had the same problem.