Firefox is not reading my restored profile after Windows reinstall

I needed to reinstall Windows (again!). Before doing so I saved my profile on to an external drive.
I followed the restore instructions (created a new profile and copy/pasted the saved files to the new profile folder) and can see that all the saved files now reside in the new profile folder but when I start Firefox it doesn't seem to be reading them at all. None of my bookmarks are available at all. It still looks just like a fresh install.
I must have made a mistake somewhere but I can't work out what.
Any insights would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Occasionally the problem is that instead of replacing all the files/folder in the new profile folder, the old profile folder becomes ''nested'' in the new folder in its entirety. Make sure that settings files such as places.sqlite are at the top level of the profile folder and not in a subfolder.

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