How do I a recover and view old deleted internet history. places.sqlite file only goes back a month and I want to go back a year.
Ok... 100% honesty instead of making some story up; my boyfriend had an affair; mostly online. When I caught wind of this he mass cleared the whole internet history. This was at the end of august.
I have found the places.sqlite file using the manager add-on. BUT the old history is not there. There is history there from the last month and it shows me pages that were individually deleted but none of the old history is there. I want to go as far back as March 2013 if I can. My bf knows I am doing this and said he would give me any password I may need to do so.
I feel like Iv been living a lie for months and I want some piece of mind.
I need to make a big decision right now and seeing this history will help me.
Pleas tell me there is a way too do this?!?!?! I'm hanging by a thread here.
You can try to use recuva, but is unlikely to work, due to the large size of the places.sqlite file.
* http://www.piriform.com/recuva
* The green button is the free download.
Though your boyfriend may had been using private browsing too.
* [[Private Browsing - Browse the web without saving information about the sites you visit]]
In the future, you can catch him with a history tracking like program, or parental controls.
* [[Block and unblock websites with parental controls]]
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''Do I just do it by copying the places.sqlite file within that XP profile over into my USB flash drive, then replacing the places.sqlite in the Winodws 7 profile with the one from the other one?''
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