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Author: Lisi
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] restoring Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox from backup
On Wednesday 09 July 2008 22:32:27 Tony Whitmore wrote:
> Lisi,
>
> Lisi wrote:
> > [peter@Dozy 8qfkppsa.default]$ ls -al
> > total 6212
> > drwxr-xr-x 6 root  root     4096 Jun 26 09:46 ./
> > drwx------ 4 peter peter    4096 Jul  9 10:31 ../
> > -rwxrwxrwx 1 root  root      198 Apr 21  2007 48117955.s*
> > -rwxrwxrwx 1 root  root    55396 Jun 24 12:55 abook.mab*
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root      248 Jun 24 12:46 blocklist.xml

>
> <snip>
> These are all owned by root. They should be owned by (it looks like)
> peter. Try
>
> chown -R peter /home/peter/.thunderbird
>
> As root.


Tony, you are wonderful! "And, oh, Father Christmas, my blessings on you
fall..."

I am very grateful to everyone who put so much effort into helping me. I can
almost find the energy to dance.

Thanks, all :-)) \o/
Lisi