Old computer crashed, need to recover info to new computer that has FF now installed and somethings setup. Need to pick and chose what is brought over from old
Had to buy new computer and it is windows 8.1 vs the old was XP. It took 10 days to get the cabling to connect the old HD to new computer USB port.
I need the computer for my work so I had to manually configure and set up enough to keep working. This includes FF.
Now that I have access to the old HD I want to selective bring over things from the old FF configuration and set up as I do not want to destroy the what I have already set up and configured. I guess you could say I am looking to do a selective merge of the two configuration and user data files.
See this support article - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Recovering%20important%20data%20from%20an%20old%20profile
Any file that you copy from the old Profile into the new Profile ''(will overwrite the new file)'' will delete the info that is in the new Profile.
Tell us exactly what data you want to actually "merge" and we might have a solution for you. Bookmarks are easy to "merge" once you know how; other types of data aren't as easy to "merge".
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Edit: to be more specific I just want to make sure my settings, contacts, apps are intact after i sync. I already manually pulled my photos and videos off.
Message was edited by: Diving0Try a manual backup before you sync for the first time.
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I had this same issue at one time. This is what helped me put my music on the ipod. I used manually manage.
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Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!
For information and instruction on how to authorize your computer using iTunes, please reference the attached article.
Authorize your computer using iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1420
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Which version of Acrobat have been using?
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