On Wednesday 09 March 2005 13:28, Christopher Taylor wrote: > I had to re-install Mandrake 10.1 due to some stupidity on my parrt. > Before I did I backed up my home folder onto CD. After re-installing, > I installed firefox and thunderbird with urpmi. I also restored the > home folder from the CD. I saw immediately that the firefox was an > older rev tried to use the version of firefox in my home folder (from > the CD backup). It worked fine, until I tried to save bookmarks. The > bookmarks stayed in the list until I shutdown firefox. I tried > uninstalling both the older copy via the control panel and deleting > the folder that had my backup copy. I then installed 1.0 via the > installer. STill the same problem. I did find out that if I logged > in to a root console and started firefox that way the bookmarks > persisted. It was only starting from my account. I was able to solve > the problem by removing the folders, in a root night commander console > deleted the mozilla in my root folder and my account folder, the > downloading 1.0.1 and installing to a folder in my home. Now I can > save bookmarks. > > Tonight, I am going to try and go through the same procedure with > Thunderbird which does not save my accounts.
Take a look at the ownership of the files you have restored from the CD. Files contain attributes to determine their ownership and permissions. The ownership attribute is the UID:GID numbers (user and group IDs) If you added your users in a different sequence when you did the reinstall you will have a different UID from last time and you will not 'own' the files you backed up from CD. You will have to be root user to change the ownerships derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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