Re: Hidden files as backup...

On 2008-07-25, zed <zed@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.

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