How can I restore my cookies?

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System Restore does not back-up cookies. Cookies will re-populate when the
web-sites are re-visited. Any site pass-words will have to be reentered.

JAX

"Mark Fineman" <mark.s.fineman@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> I am running Windows XP Professional, up to date as of today (July 22,
> 2004)
>
> I used the Start | Programs | Accessories | System Tools | Backup
> program to backup the Cookies directory for each of the users on
> my system.
>
> I used the Backup program to restore the cookies to another location
> in order to make sure things worked correctly. I used the Advanced
> options to say do not replace existing files and to retain the current
> settings.
>
> Backup was nice enough to make a system restore point.
>
> When the restore completed the alternative location only
> had a single file for each user's cookies. Unfortuneately,
> all of the cookies for everyone were deleted.
>
> I tried restoring to the original location; all of the
> cookies were still missing.
>
> I used the system restore point to go back to the start
> of the restore. The cookies were still gone.
>
> (I checked the logs from the backup and restores and no
> errors appeared.)
>
> Are my cookies gone for good?
>
> (Once again a backup procedure that breaks things when
> tested.)
>
>