Re: new location of chromium session files

as in "aw, snap!"?  now named after a propensity to fail mysteriously?


On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 10:14 AM Mike Miller <[email protected]> wrote:

> I just thought some of you might have the same problem I had with chromium
> browser moving to snap.  This is the old location of session files:
>
>   ~/.config/chromium/Default/Current\ Session
>
> This is the new location:
>
>   ~/snap/chromium/current/.config/chromium/Default/Current\ Session
>
> But the old files are still in the old location, they just aren't being
> used.  The "current" directory is a symlink to a directory named "920",
> but I assume that directory name can change.
>
> I sometimes use a perl one-liner to see all of the URLs in all of my tabs.
> Right now both of these work and give different answers:
>
> perl -nwle '$h{$_}++ for /http[[:print:]]+/g; END{print for sort keys
> %h;}' ~/snap/chromium/current/.config/chromium/Default/Current\ Session
>
> perl -nwle '$h{$_}++ for /http[[:print:]]+/g; END{print for sort keys
> %h;}' ~/.config/chromium/Default/Current\ Session
>
> I think the new snap chromium imported the old session, but it crashed
> when I started it, and then it lost all the old tabs.  I had a lot of tabs
> open, but I don't think it should crash.  I'll try copying the old files
> to see if I can make it work.
>
> Mike
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