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GaryWayne
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Status: New idea

I found myself needing to uninstall firefox due to a loading error.  Only thing is I'd have to manually re-enter my passwords.  I need to be able to export passwords to a file then after reinstalling firefox import passwords from that file.  Is there anyone out there that has had this problem?

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Jon
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_Art
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Hi, maybe back up your thunderbird profiles : This PC > View > tick 'hidden items' then C Drive > Users > [name] > AppData > Roaming > Thunderbird > Profiles

On any reinstallation, copy the contents of the two folders into the new folders at the same location (it is obvious which goes where, but the 'release' one is the one you need

All settings, folders and passwords are moved across