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SOLVED: Restore points, Firefox history and extensions all lost
Boggin:
I've only received the one for your post.
I've never lost any restore points using Windows own.
Tone111:
So have I for that one, must have been a temporary hiccup... :tongue:
Tone111:
Ok Boggin, time for an update
Had another go at the system restore and this time it completed with no errors so no idea what the issue was there :thinking: so I now have one!! :cheesy:
Ran an SFC after deleting the pending.xml file and it ran ok but found errors it was unable to fix (as usual) so ran the SFCFix which found the following
AutoAnalysis::
CORRUPT: C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-i..e-trigramdictionary_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_12d6b2e3587e9b12\PINTLGT.IMD
SUMMARY: Some corruptions could not be fixed automatically. Seek advice from helper or sysnative.com.
CBS & SFC total detected corruption count: 1
CBS & SFC total unimportant corruption count: 0
CBS & SFC total fixed corruption count: 0
SURT total detected corruption count: 68
SURT total unimportant corruption count: 0
SURT total fixed corruption count: 0
AutoAnalysis:: directive completed successfully.
This has been an issue for a while now and I guess needs the input of someone on the sysnative forums, but doesn't seem to be causing any problems with the OS or anything noticeable as yet...
Also managed to (partially) resolve the browser issue as well - after some googling and (Windows) exploring I discovered that a new profile folder had been created yesterday - don't know why! :confused: - but wouldn't let me delete it due to an "extensions" folder which I also couldn't take control of with permissions, so I copied all (except the extensions folder) of the old profile contents into the new one and now I have my bookmarks and history back - big yays for that! :artist: only downside is my extensions have all gone and for some reason it won't let me re-install any of them :sad: so I'll have to do more digging on that score... :rolleyes:
Boggin:
I can't find anything specific on that sfc error, but you seem to be getting somewhere.
While you haven't gotten the error in this article, perhaps that change of profile may have also altered your Firefox one and perhaps this article may help.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-run-firefox-when-profile-missing-inaccessible
Tone111:
Yes, cheers mate, everything seems pretty much back to 'normal' now! :wink:
After restarting Firefox to no avail, and then rebooting my machine, I finally got all the extensions to install again, so that's good. That link was useful too - I could have reset the Firefox profile in the .ini file and pointed it back to the original one had I known, but what I've done has given the same desired outcome and effect anyway, albeit via a slightly round the houses route. :artist:
I've lived with that unusual SFC error since after my repair install last year, so it's no biggie, I may get it sorted at some point with the sysnative folks but it doesn't seem to cause any problems that I can gather. :undecided:
I'm still not sure if the defragging was the cause of both the problems, but it definitely seems to have removed the restore points, so I may have to look into different methods of doing that, perhaps with Windows utility or some other more secure way.
I think we can say this one's solved now though, so I'll amend the subject to that, and thanks again for your help, appreciated :smiley:
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