yeah, i found a copy of places.sqlite from last week in my recycle bin, and it seems to have fallen from about 82 mb to about 72 mb by deleting the last two weeks of october, 2016. that's been put aside, so i at least won't lose it. makes me wonder how far back it went before it started deleting things...firefox never used to do that...

apparently, what you have to do now is add places.history.expiration.max_pages with a large number (i just ran off 999999999s), and it changes the appropriate value, which is otherwise bizarrely set to read-only. easy. but i wish i knew.

i think i initially cleared everything up until march, 2016 - like, wiped the history down entirely - and that i've recovered data from cbc & disqus up to june, 2017, which is when i switched to 64 bit. so, i think that the worst case is that i missed data from march to october, 2016.

the only place i might have backed that up would be on the recording pc.

i'm going to stop to eat and worry about that last.