Lost my Firefox Bookmarks after formatation

This afternoon, I erased the hard disk of my Macbook Pro 13'' with the idea that I had carefully saved all data on my external hard disk. After OSX Leopard was installed, I attempted to restore my Firefox profile to only find out that I had copied the wrong data to my external hard disk. Namely, the Firefox cache data instead of the profile itself.

The Firefox cache data can be found in 'user name' -> library -> caches -> Firefox -> Profiles, whereas I apparently should have copied the profile that can be found in 'user name' -> library -> application support -> Firefox -> Profile.

Now it seems that I didn't format the system properly as there are several files in the trash bin that I deleted before I erased the hard disk - even though I did erase the disk through the Disk Utility.

Therefore, I want to know whether there is any possibility to retrieve the profile that I need in order to restore my bookmarks/configuration for Firefox.

Thanks in advance.

 

Not sure, but get xmarks for the future, online back up and syncing = awesome.

 

Another vote for XMarks. Not only can you sync multiple copies of FireFox, but also works with Safari and Chrome.

 

Look through your trash files for bookmarks.html. If there's one there, find the associated directory and see if it looks like a firefox profile.

 

if there are files in your trash that are there from before the format... then you never formatted, or you just erased files after the format and your mistaken thinking they are the same ones.

 

I haven't managed to retrieve my bookmarks, but I had way too many of them anyway. The most important bookmarks I remember anyway.

Thanks for the suggestion of using Xmarks, definitely a tool I can recommend to everyone.