On 4/15/20 4:40 PM, John Mellor wrote:
On 2020-04-15 16:13, José Abílio Matos wrote:
> . . .
> The only profile he has it Firefox. I do not think he even has any
docs or pictures, but I will check.
Firefox can be tricky to restore, as it uses a non-trivial directory
path to keep everything. If he is on any of the latest versions of
Firefox, he can use their new Sync feature to preserve all his
passwords, settings, bookmarks, etc. I did that twice, and it works
beautifully. Unfortunately, it does not also do Thunderbird settings,
but maybe that's ok. Pictures, documents, etc are best backed up and
restored to a thumbdrive.
What do you mean by "non-trivial"? Everything is in
"~/.mozilla/firefox". Everything Thunderbird is in "~/.thunderbird".
For backup purposes, just make a copy of the entire home directory.
Assuming the default configuration, /home is a separate partition and
won't be touched during a reinstall.
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