Dave Plater wrote:
Dave Plater wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Thursday January 22 2009, Dave Plater wrote:
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Thanks all, I couldn't find the lockfile but deleting the entire contents of the ~/.mozilla/firefox directory and logging out and in again sorted it out. Now all I have to do is retrieve my bookmarks from backup.
In the future, just move the directory away from the place that makes it special, don't actually eradicate it!
Regards Dave P
Randall Schulz
I think firefox was running when I backed up the home directory. I'm going to try restoring it with firefox running and see what happens. Regards Dave P
Success, I restored ~/.mozilla/firefox with firefox running and I've got all my addons, bookmarks etc restored as well after restarting firefox. The moral of the story :- don't backup home directory with firefox running. Regards Dave P
Sorry, but I see nothing wrong with making a backup of /home with firefox running. The only thing which doing so does - and you have been told/warned about this in other posts - is that the backup will contain (shown in red colour if you use mc to look inside the directory) the file "!lock" in ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxxx.default which you need to delete otherwise firefox cannot be activated again because it thinks that a copy is already running. Same thing will happen to Thunderbird if that is being used. In any case, you do not restore ~/.mozilla/firefox but simply ~/.mozilla because it is this directory which contains *all* of the firefox profile details (for a particular user). Ciao. -- "I do not instruct the uninterested; I do not help those who fail to try. If I mention one corner of a subject and the pupil does not deduce therefrom the other three, I drop him." Confucius -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org