On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 14:12:17 +0000, Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > Derek,
That makes sense. The name was the same. I couldn't tell that there were different IDs from the terminal. I did try changing the ownerships at one point, but it was only for the sortcut on the desktop. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out.
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