FF syncing: which pc is the source pc ?

[ftr]

I installed FF on a new pc and want to transfer the passwords and
bookmarks from the old to the new pc.

I started a syncing account on both pcs with the same email account.
How can I assure that the info is transferred from the old to the new pc
? So that the info on the new pc - which is empty - does not kill the
old one - which should be the source ?
To me syncing is a two-way affair which means that you mix somehow the
info on both pcs.

Puzzling

TIA
ftr

[Keith Nuttle]

Don't sync. Install Firefox on the new PC, and then copy the profile
from the old PC to the new PC. This will move all of your setting,
addons, bookmark, etc. to the new PC. Once the profile has been change
you can then set up the Sync. (I do not use this function of Firefox,
so can not comment)

You can also use Mozibackup
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/download.php

It is good to have this on your PC any way and occasionally back up Firefox.


If you have Thunderbird on your computer you would transfer them the
same way.

[ftr]

Thank you. I will try that. I used Mozbackup for the email transfer.

[Millwood]

They don't seem interested in fixing this -
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=966530

[»Q«]

In
<news:mailman.8207.144923139...@lists.mozilla.org>,

Sync by default merges the data from all the profiles, so it should
Just Work, without any data loss.

I'd make a backup of the profile which has all the data you want to
keep, just to be safe.

[Mark Lloyd]

On 12/04/2015 06:44 AM, Keith Nuttle wrote:
> On 12/4/2015 7:16 AM, ftr wrote:
>> I installed FF on a new pc and want to transfer the passwords and
>> bookmarks from the old to the new pc.
>>
>> I started a syncing account on both pcs with the same email account.
>> How can I assure that the info is transferred from the old to the new pc
>> ? So that the info on the new pc - which is empty - does not kill the
>> old one - which should be the source ?
>> To me syncing is a two-way affair which means that you mix somehow the
>> info on both pcs.
>>
>> Puzzling
>>
>> TIA
>> ftr
> Don't sync. Install Firefox on the new PC, and then copy the profile
> from the old PC to the new PC. This will move all of your setting,
> addons, bookmark, etc. to the new PC. Once the profile has been change
> you can then set up the Sync. (I do not use this function of Firefox,
> so can not comment)

When setting up FF on a new machine, I do it this way:

Install and run FF. Stop the program.

Locate the profile folder and erase its contents (not the folder itself).

Locate the OLD profile folder and copy its contents to the new profile
folder.

Run FF and see that this new machine has the same settings. You need to
update the identification for sync. Mine is "mark's Firefox on Nova"
where "Nova" is the machine name.

> You can also use Mozibackup
> http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/download.php
> It is good to have this on your PC any way and occasionally back up
> Firefox.

AFAIK, this provides no real advantage over copying the folder contents.
It just makes it harded to understand what you're doing.

> If you have Thunderbird on your computer you would transfer them the
> same way.

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[Big Al]

I'd guess it's this way on FF but I just loaded a clean load of Win10 and Chrome for a friend.
When I turned on sync on the new PC, THEY both did the sync, but with no bookmarks in the new PC that just meant the
bookmarks from the old one came over to the new one.

Yes, there are some default Mozilla sites or in this case Google sites built in, but that would just mean they would be
added to the old system. No harm its usually 6 bookmarks.

I use sync on FF all the time. I could never keep 5 PC's and a phone in sync otherwise.

[king-daddy]

On 12/4/2015 7:16 AM, ftr wrote:

It's easier than all that!
See my Nov 28 "What happened to my bookmarks"

I started Firefox with it's new virgin profile.

Tools/sync now
and put in my credentials just as on any new machine.

Done.

Carl