Oh, Headdesk....

I went to login to dreamwidth earlier and Firefox didn't fill in my credentials as usual. A bit of poking later, and I find that Firefox's logins.json file in my profile is now called logins.json.corrupt.. Every saved password gone.Several hours of poking around backups later, I've come to the conclusion I don't have a copy of my Firefox profile. The moral of this story is: if you do your backups manually, remember to copy your users/<account>/AppData folder.

And while I can usually reconstruct my passwords, this time it didn't work, which I was decidedly stressed by. Or it didn't work until the second time I sat to work through the possibilities, so fumble-fingers must have mistyped it the first time around. Grrr!

The irony is, I'd been meaning to sit down and systematically extract all of those passwords so that I have a secure copy independent of any password tool. Fortunately I've got most of the important ones listed already, but this is just sods law!!!