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From: zed on 25 Jul 2008 05:16 Hi! I've had to do a complete reinstall of LinuxMint on my Desktop computer. Fortunately I had a backup of Firefox, including the hidden folders on a USB pendrive. After the reinstall was completed I renamed the home/.mozilla file and copied the backup in its place, expecting that when I opened Firefox all my Bookmarks and Add-ons etc would be there. They weren't :-( Opened /home/.mozilla in and found that the files contained the same data as in the backups. Copied the backup files over to /home/mozilla again and checked all the files contained the same data as in the backup files. Closed everything and then opened Firefox. Still does not display my Bookmarks. I have repeated the actions taken but just cannot get Firefox to display the Bookmarks in /home/.mozilla I am now at a complete loss and seek your guidance. -- zed
From: Ian Rawlings on 25 Jul 2008 05:33 On 2008-07-25, zed <zed(a)zed.net.nz> wrote: > After the reinstall was completed I renamed the home/.mozilla file and > copied the backup in its place, expecting that when I opened Firefox all my > Bookmarks and Add-ons etc would be there. They weren't :-( Well, you'd need to make sure firefox wasn't running at the time you did the move, otherwise any files it had open it would still have open even if they've been renamed elsewhere. Chances are if you quit firefox it would overwrite your restored backups of things like bookmarks with the stuff it has in memory. So try quitting firefox, renaming .mozilla to mozilla-deleteme (or similar), "cp -a <backup>/.mozilla ." and *then* restarting firefox. Failing that, your bookmarks will be in a file called "bookmarks.html" within your backup mozilla directory, usually with a strange path, on mine it's /home/ian/.mozilla/firefox/qfjzri4i.default/bookmarks.html so at the very worst you can copy this HTML file, open it, and go through them all checking they're all still valid and adding them to your new config. You shouldn't need to do this though. Note that firefox config is in a directory called "firefox" inside ".mozilla" though, so if you don't have that directory then you've not backed up the right information. -- Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire! http://youtube.com/user/tarcus69 http://www.flickr.com/photos/tarcus/sets/
From: alexd on 25 Jul 2008 08:39 On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:16:22 +1200, zed wrote: > After the reinstall was completed I renamed the home/.mozilla file and > copied the backup in its place, expecting that when I opened Firefox all > my Bookmarks and Add-ons etc would be there. They weren't :-( Try 'firefox -ProfileManager' and see if it shows two profiles. -- <http://ale.cx/> (AIM:troffasky) (UnSoEsNpEaTm(a)ale.cx) 13:38:20 up 13 days, 16:13, 4 users, load average: 0.02, 0.04, 0.00 Convergence, n: The act of using separate DSL circuits for voice and data
From: Robert Billing on 25 Jul 2008 12:56 zed wrote: > Hi! > After the reinstall was completed I renamed the home/.mozilla file and > copied the backup in its place, expecting that when I opened Firefox all my > Bookmarks and Add-ons etc would be there. They weren't :-( That's because mozilla creates, for some arcane reason, a strangely named subdirectory. All you need do is copy the bookmarks.html from wherever it was in the old system to wherever the new system has put it. I know it works because I've just done it.
From: Andy Burns on 25 Jul 2008 17:42
On 25/07/2008 17:56, Robert Billing wrote: > That's because mozilla creates, for some arcane reason, a strangely > named subdirectory. I believe it so that even if some devious javascript figures out a way of forcing a file upload that a user didn't intend, it won't know the full path to the files containing bookmarks, cookies and passwords ... |