On Thursday 09 May 2019 07:53:44 pm David Wright wrote: > On Thu 09 May 2019 at 16:26:10 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 09 May 2019 12:51:24 pm Curt wrote: > > > On 2019-05-09, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > > > I have a need to transfer all the prefs -"saved logins" from a > > > > wheezy install to a stretch install, separate drives. And > > > > obviously the stretch firefox is about 20 versions newer. What > > > > file do I copy from the wheezy drive to the stretch drive so my > > > > bank knows its me? > > > > > > I believe you need the following *two* files: > > > > > > key4.db > > > logins.json > > > > Couldn't find it, so I ran updateb with the old drive mounted. > > > > key4.db shows up in several places, but it looks like the one I > > might want is one of these two: > > > > this one as its the biggest by quite a bit > > /home/gene/.mozilla/firefox/73t2g4uq.default/key4.db except its on > > this drive? But copying it over from the old drive didn't seem to do > > a thing, and neither did copying logins.json. Firefox has changed a > > lot since wheezy. > > Well, it wouldn't unless you change profiles.ini in the same directory > to point at the correct path as the default. > > Alternatively, assuming you've run FF on the new system (which it > sounds like you have), you can swap the names of the two directories > (one from the old system with all your stuff in it, one created on > the new system which you can eventually delete). > > $ ls -l .mozilla/firefox/ > total 16 > drwxr-sr-- 4 flash flash 4096 Mar 25 08:50 Crash Reports > drwxr-sr-- 21 flash flash 4096 May 9 14:29 jzq80501.default > drwxr-sr-- 2 flash flash 4096 Sep 9 2018 Pending Pings > -rw-r--r-- 1 flash flash 94 Sep 16 2009 profiles.ini > $ cat .mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini > [General] > StartWithLastProfile=1 > > [Profile0] > Name=default > IsRelative=1 > Path=jzq80501.default > > $ > > You can see that this user (a non-financial one) has had its profile, > named jzq80501, for ten years. It's been copied from system to system > as each machine has had its period of being the one I sit in front of. > So there are now five copies in various stages of evolution on five > machines: two desktops and three laptops. > > Cheers, > David.
Thanks David. Printed, for reference and tutorial tomorrow. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
