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HI All, Not sure if right spot for this but sure will be told where to post
if not. Anyway, in my browser history I inadvertently cleared some entries that I really needed, was some sites I had been looking for and didn't take the time to write down. Is there anyway to get them back or once deleted,always deleted? Thanks so much. Oh it's windows xp home, firefox. |
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The proper place would be a firefox support forum, your question has nothing
to do with XP. -- -- "didee58" wrote in message news HI All, Not sure if right spot for this but sure will be told where to post if not. Anyway, in my browser history I inadvertently cleared some entries that I really needed, was some sites I had been looking for and didn't take the time to write down. Is there anyway to get them back or once deleted,always deleted? Thanks so much. Oh it's windows xp home, firefox. |
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You're SOL.
didee58 wrote: HI All, Not sure if right spot for this but sure will be told where to post if not. Anyway, in my browser history I inadvertently cleared some entries that I really needed, was some sites I had been looking for and didn't take the time to write down. Is there anyway to get them back or once deleted,always deleted? Thanks so much. Oh it's windows xp home, firefox. |
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He's not even in a correct newsgroup..asking about Firefox in a Windows XP
newsgroup ;-) "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message ... : You're SOL. : : didee58 wrote: : HI All, Not sure if right spot for this but sure will be told where to : post : if not. Anyway, in my browser history I inadvertently cleared some entries : that I really needed, was some sites I had been looking for and didn't : take : the time to write down. Is there anyway to get them back or once : deleted,always deleted? : Thanks so much. Oh it's windows xp home, firefox. : |
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didee58 wrote:
HI All, Not sure if right spot for this but sure will be told where to post if not. Anyway, in my browser history I inadvertently cleared some entries that I really needed, was some sites I had been looking for and didn't take the time to write down. Is there anyway to get them back or once deleted,always deleted? Thanks so much. Oh it's windows xp home, firefox. Try the following. I can't guarantee what you'll find. So treat this as an experiment. If you look in your Firefox profile, you'll find a file like "places.sqlite". There are at least eight files of that type, in the user's profile folder. There is also one "journal" file, and that would contain recent delta changes to the largest of the databases. That might be used for recovery purposes by Firefox. The journal is likely useless for this experiment. SQLite is a database. Firefox uses it extensively for managing objects in runs into while browsing. Everything you do in Firefox, will involve accessing the many databases. I did a simple experiment. First, I went into Firefox, and found a recent article I was reading in the History list. Part of the URL contained the text string "singer.drone". Next, I used a copy of SQLite3 executable. As far as I know, this one is consistent with my current version of Firefox 3.0.16. It could be, that some other version of SQLite is used by a later Firefox. You may have to do some investigations, to find out what version of SQLite goes with your version of Firefox. This one seemed to work for me. http://sqlite.org/sqlite-3_6_20.zip Inside the ZIP is "sqlite3.exe" . That is a tool for carrying out operations on SQLite files. First, I copied my "places.sqlite" file to an empty folder. Don't do these kinds of operations, on the live files in your Firefox profile! Make a copy of the file when you're fooling around. First, quit Firefox and wait until it has fully exited. Then, copy the file to your separate folder. That way, you'll prevent accidents with the contents of the profile. In a command prompt window, while you've changed directory to the folder with sqlite3.exe and places.sqlite in it, run this command. SQLite accepts commands once it is started. I'm entering these commands in the Command Prompt or "MSDOS" window. C: cd / cd downloads cd sqlite3 sqlite3 places.sqlite sqlite .output dump.txt sqlite .dump sqlite .exit What that does, is converts places.sqlite, into a text file. I chose "dump.txt" as the file name. I opened "dump.txt" in Wordpad, and searched for "singer.drone" and I found it. Now, maybe "places.sqlite" contains your history. I don't know that for sure. But by using the sqlite3 application, you may be able to look around and find what you lost. HTH, Paul |
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That, too...
Tom Willett wrote: He's not even in a correct newsgroup..asking about Firefox in a Windows XP newsgroup ;-) You're SOL. didee58 wrote: HI All, Not sure if right spot for this but sure will be told where to post if not. Anyway, in my browser history I inadvertently cleared some entries that I really needed, was some sites I had been looking for and didn't take the time to write down. Is there anyway to get them back or once deleted,always deleted? Thanks so much. Oh it's windows xp home, firefox. |
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