On 2020-04-15 7:52 p.m., Samuel Sieb wrote:
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.
I mean that I have always had issues getting a new install of Firefox to
use the the ~/.mozilla/firefox/<generated-name> directory that is
referenced in your profiles.ini and installs.ini in this directory. It
contains everything. Any underlying Firefox install before the restore
on a fresh image will give you a different directory name. This means
that your backups are broken wrt. Firefox. I can find no docs on how to
do this restore correctly, so if someone knows...
--
John Mellor
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