Author: Lisi Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] restoring Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox from backup
On Thursday 03 July 2008 17:55:08 Sean Gibbins wrote: > Lisi wrote:
> > I need to eat humble pie. I know that I have visited this subject on
> > this list before; and not long ago, at that. Several of you sent me
> > useful replies and Sean (I think - sorry if it was someone else) sent me
> > the most marvellous magic incantation which worked in full.
> >
> > I have just spent quite a long, frustrating time searching for the
> > thread. It is the first time that searching my Gmail archive has let me
> > down. Clearly I am putting garbage in and getting garbage out. :-(
> >
> > Can anyone rescue me from my incompetence and point me at the earlier
> > thread?
> >
> > Or would any kind soul tell me what to do? I remember it was more
> > complicated than Mozillazine had led me to expect, so am trying to read
> > up as much as possible before I mess a fresh install up again.
> >
> > The "backup" is simply a copy of my husband's /home as it was on the now
> > defunct installation. I do not want to copy everything back: just his
> > document files (easy) and his email, or I could simply use the command I
> > used to copy from /home to /backup to copy from /backup to /home.
>
> Hi Lisi,
>
> I sent you the original email off-list, but to summarise I do the
> following:
>
> - Install Thunderbird
> - Fire it up and set up the account
> - Go into ~user/.mozilla-thunderbird
> - Rename <newstring>.default to <newstring>.default.orig
> - Copy the folder
> '<backup_location>/.mozilla-thunderbird/<oldstring>.default' to
> '~user/mozilla-thunderbird/<newstring>.default'
> - Fire up Thunderbird and weep if it doesn't work
>
> I am guessing that there is an easier way to achieve this but it works...
>
> I would also guess that if you have any profiles other than 'default'
> you may need to follow a similar process for them too.
I have tried to do this by various routes, all have failed. The most likely
to be rescued is my attempt at using mv. But I am clearly getting my syntax
wrong, because it doesn't work.
moves 59uwmlpn.default, and places it _inside_ 8qfkppsa.default. What I want
it to do is rename 59uwmlpn.default to 8qfkppsa.default, and then use it to
replace the original 8qfkppsa.default.
