Hi,
I had a similar problem with Thunderbird. On the build I had the settings directory was called something different. I checked on my Etch machine and it was called .mozilla/firefox on that so maybe not.
When you copied the files across did you copy the ownership and permissions? If the user IDs of the accounts are different it may be that you can't access the settings because Lenny thinks they don't belong to you. An ls -lad .mozilla should show the ownership. If you see numbers instead of a username and group name then I think you've found it. You can fix it by:
ls - l
(See what the owner and group of most of your files are)
su -
(Enter root password)
cd ~yourusername
chown -R yourusername.yourgroupname .mozilla
Cheers,
Paul.
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From: Stephen Nelson-Smith
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To: Hampshire LUG Mailing List
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Subject: [Hampshire] Restoring firefox bookmarks
Sent: 10 Feb 2009 02:49
I've rebuilt a machine that was Ubuntu 8.04 with Debian Lenny.
I have a backup of /home from the ubuntu machine, including my
.mozilla directory.
I've rsynced the .mozilla/firefox directory to .mozilla on the debian
system, and restarted iceweasel, but I don't see any sign of the
bookmarks.
What am I doing wrong?
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Atalanta Systems Ltd
www.atalanta-systems.com
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