Hey IT Nerd! When Your Wife Moved To Mac, How Did You Move Her Bookmarks?
Another good question, and one that I should have covered in more detail in the original article that I wrote about moving from PC to Mac.
What I did is go to this directory on her Windows XP computer:
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Firefox\Profiles
One thing to note is that you may have to show hidden files to see this folder. Inside that folder is a folder called xxxxx.default where xxxxx is a random set of letters and numbers. Go into that folder and look for a folder called bookmarkbackups. Go into that folder and pick the most recent backup that ends in the extension .json and copy it to a USB stick or across your network to the Mac. In the case of the latter location, I like to place it on the desktop so that it is easy to find.
Once you have that file. Simply open Firefox and click on Bookmarks and Show All Bookmarks. Click on the star and choose Restore and Choose File. Choose the location that you have the .json file located and after you heed the warning about the fact that restoring this backup overwrites what bookmarks you may have, you’ll have your bookmarks moved over to your new Mac.
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