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