Re: new laptop
Brian O'Keefe <[email protected]>
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OK, did it! It took almost 48 hrs. to copy ~/.mozilla and finally replace the OS version with my old one and voila! I have all of my FF everything. I even have the seriously deprecated scrapbook which has years or research data and websites and I can view them (in a seriously deprecated FF version but the last that supported scrapbook). I need to somehow deal with these as I can preserve them but with new FF versions not view them. I can run two versions of FF but that's a pain. In any case all of my history, bookmarks, scrapbook, passwords, etc. are all there. Now I need to deal with it. I don't know why copying .mozilla took so long but it is about 6.3GB but well over 1MB files! The main thing is that it worked. I hate migrating to a new drive or OS. Actually the drive is easy with dd. It's the using a new OS that creates the issues of time, after time... Thanks for all the interest. Cheers and I'll make the next meeting and bring the laptop along. Meanwhile I have lots of programs to install so that part is up to snuff. Brian On 8/3/19 5:46 PM, Akkana Peck wrote: > Brian O'Keefe writes: >> Thanks Ted. I wonder why it happened? I got my email all migrated but >> my FF bookmarks, history, passwords are proving to be much more >> difficult. I have copied over my profile to no avail. I'm now going to >> copy my entire ~/.mozilla folder which is huge and will take much time. >> Hopefully though it will work. Other migrations only ever required my >> FF profile. > In case you haven't already done it: you should be able to backup or > export your bookmarks from the Show All Bookmarks window, then > restore/import them in the new Firefox. That saves you from having > to move places.sqlite which at least in my firefox profile is the > lion's share of the profile's disk space. (It used to be the cache > directory, which I don't see any more, so maybe that got sucked into > places.sqlite too.) You still might want to copy the rest of the > Firefox folder to save your preferences, extensions and so on, but > they'll be small compared to places.sqlite. > > ...Akkana > _______________________________________________ > nmglug mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org > > -- _______________________________________________ nmglug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org