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Postby **Joshua Christopher** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 5:33 pm

No more than five minutes ago everything was fine, all of the sudden I go to open up Firefox, and it's asking me to select a user. The only option was "default", and when I opened it up all of my setting/favourites/everything was gone.

Any ideas?

Postby **Mr. SmartyPants** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 5:34 pm

ctrl+alt+delete

close firefox

then open it again

basically you were opening firefox when it was actually open...

Postby **Joshua Christopher** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 5:44 pm

Mr. SmartyPants wrote:ctrl+alt+delete

close firefox

then open it again

basically you were opening firefox when it was actually open...

I tried that and it unfortunately didn't work.

I'll try to explain this more.

I wasn't using the internet at the time (Firefox, I'm on DSL so it's always on). As usual, I clicked on the icon to open it up and a window popped up asking me to select a user. The only selection was "default". Apparently my user name is gone. I tried rebooting and that didn't help.

Postby **Mr. SmartyPants** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 6:05 pm

hmmm

odd

I mean basically you were opening firefox when it was still running in your task manager (doesn't have to appear on your desktop)

Postby **Joshua Christopher** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 6:11 pm

Mr. SmartyPants wrote:hmmm

odd

I mean basically you were opening firefox when it was still running in your task manager (doesn't have to appear on your desktop)

It wasn't running.

Postby **shooraijin** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 6:12 pm

Moved to Computing.

Postby **blkmage** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 7:16 pm

The process could have still been running. In that case, end the process.

Postby **Joshua Christopher** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 7:52 pm

blkmage wrote:The process could have still been running. In that case, end the process.

I've already rebooted and cleaned everything out--still nothing.

Postby **Fsiphskilm** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:24 pm

Let go o

Postby **ShiroiHikari** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:55 pm

In Firefox, you can also go to the Bookmarks Manager and go File -> Export. It exports all your bookmarks to an html doc.

Postby **LorentzForce** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 4:42 am

FireFox (and Mozilla varients of programs) often has this file that is used as a "cache" while the program is running, also used so it locks down the user mode, so that no one else can change it. Problem is that FireFox once a while forgets to get rid of that file, for various reasons or another (often crashes), sees the file, and declares "someone else is using the user, so I won't".

I myself don't know how to fix this on a Windows computer, but I'll assume that in Windows, you must also find a file called "lock" and delete it. It should be in your settings folder, the place where all application data of your computer is stored. "Documents and Settings" or something.

[edit] Hehe, Volt's registry fixer won't work because FireFox doesn't use much of the registry, since it's also ported to other systems, which mightn't have such a thing called "registry".

Postby **Fsiphskilm** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 9:24 am

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Postby **Locke** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 1:56 pm

Great this just happened to me last night

Rest in peace my pimped out Firefox theme....

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