Re: fc25 --> fc31

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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...

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John Mellor
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