batch delete clippings form firefox

[Robin Interlandi]

Good morning, I am wondering if there is a way of deleting the currently stored clippings in firefox 78.8 esr

The situation is as follows:

This is a work PC where I have access to the %appdata%/Roaming folder/Mozilla, the PC is part of a Domain and therefore I am unable to uninstall and reinstall the addon, but I am able to import profiles or delete data from the above mentioned path.

I have read that the clippings are stored in a database. Would deleting this database clear the stored clippings rather than delete these one by one from the gui? if so where is the database located? and if deleted and firefox is restarted will a new database, although blank, be recreated. many thanks in advance

[ateng]

Clippings stores its data in a database file located in your Firefox profile folder, under storage/default/moz-extension+++<identifier>.  To find the value of <identifier>, open a new browser tab and navigate to about:config, locate the preference named "extensions.webextensions.uuids", then in the pref value, search for "{91aa5abe-9de4-4347-b7b5-322c38dd9271}:" and look for the text in quotes immediately after the colon (:).

Once you know where the Clippings database files are located on your system, you can do the following to delete the clippings database:

1. Quit Firefox.

2. Open the file explorer and navigate to your Firefox profile folder, then go to the subfolders storage/default.

3. Delete the folder with the name "moz-extension+++<identifier>" (NOTE: There may be another folder with a similar name but ending in "^userContextId=<series of digits>" -- you can ignore this folder)

4. Start Firefox. The clippings database file will be automatically regenerated.

Alex

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