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On the wiki it says that json files are supported but json file format is not listed when using photorec file options.

On the cgsecurity forums, some people have suggested that this is considered a txt file although, not one user has confirmed that this works and other users have said that using txt does not work.

Does anyone know how to use testdisk photorec to recover firefox profile files such as saved logins which use json format?

If not testdisk or photorec, I am open to using a different application. I am only interested in recovering my firefox files from a crashed gpt drive that will not mount.

Okay so I am NOT talking about recovering an NTFS partition and in fact the information , not a deleted partition, is formatted EXT4 of course because it is Ubuntu.

J.T.
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Open a file similar to the one you want to recover with a hex editor like HxD for windows or xxd for linux. Note the first characters of the file. Create a custom signature in PhotoRec with this content: json 0 <first characters of a similar json file>. Usually, firefox login.json files start with {"nextId": so use that if all else fails.

Karim AlAhmed
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