Re: Hidden files as backup...

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.
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