Mozilla restore when reinstalling Slackware?
Leo
meddle with a lot of things trying things out like installing software etc. What
happens is I end up reinstalling a lot. I have an extra partition on the end of
my drive formatted in ext3. I use this to copy anything I want to keep. For a
while now I have been using MC to copy /home/leo/.mozilla to this partition.
When I reinstalled Slackware, I would copy this back to the new /home/leo and
then start Mozilla. Usually this worked and I figured I had things all sorted
out. Pretty clever eh? Not really. Now when I do this I copy .mozilla back then
start Mozilla. I have it asking me to use a different profile. Maybe that is not
the correct wording but what I mean is it won't run. Mozilla is not coming up.
I have a lot of messages stored in "local folders" and I don't want to lose
them. Anyone have any ideas what I can do? I still have the copy of mozilla in
my extra partition so I really haven't lost the messages but they are not where
I need them.
Simon
> Now when I do this I copy .mozilla back then start Mozilla. I have it
> asking me to use a different profile.
You probably backed up ~/.mozilla while you were running Mozilla, in
which case your profile will be locked. When Mozilla isn't running,
you can try something like this:
find ~/.mozilla -name lock -exec rm '{}' \;
This hasn't been tested with email, as I don't use Mozilla for that.
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gary
Hi,
How big is the partition you are copying too? If it is large enough, why not
use is as /home? That way your /home will be intact. Along with
the .mozilla directory.
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