At 04/08/202011:17 AM-0700, Ray Davison wrote:
Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote:
No his answer is from a parallel universe where all this works. If
2.49.5 sees the 2.53 places.sqlite it will move it to
places.sqlite.corrupt and restore bookmarks from the latest json
backup. All history is gone then. favicon storing changed in
Firefox / Gecko 55 and caused this change. Indexdb starage is also
incomapatible and so on.
FRG
OK, you got me. You loose bookmarks. And you are probably right
about the "parallel universe".
I have been using my primary profile. I deleted everything that
looked like it was saving things for "just in case" including the
storage sub-directory. Ran 2.53.1. Copied that profile to WXP
2.49.5. The bookmarks didn't make it.
I know there are bookmark backup files of places.sqlite, but I
decided long ago to make bookmarks separate from the program
or data files. Turning on auto export of bookmarks to html leaves a
current html bookmark file in the browser program
file folder. I made a separate folder in root "Bookmarks", and place
the exported bookmark file there.
That html bookmark file is used as the home page of each of the
several browsers on the machine. A desktop
bat file copies the html auto-exported to the bookmarks
directory. One of the browsers, Seamonkey of course, is
the "main" bookmark source. I also have another bat file on the
desktop to copy bookmarks.html to bookmarks2.html,
2 to 3, etc for redundant copies. Now bookmarks are isolated from accidents.
Mario
And, all this has made my point about changing things "under the
covers", quietly, and making it appear that nothing has changed.
I have never blindly followed an "upgrade path", on OSs or
apps. Many upgrades aren't. I install the new along side the old,
run the new as as close as possible with the old data. And, if at
some point I prefer the new, and no longer see a need for the old, I
delete the old. That is why I now have seven SM plus PM and FM. And
right now they all have negatives for me. Failure I think I am
prepared for. I am not accustomed to having to look for tricks to
make the old look like the new.
And it increases my support for separating things so they are easier
to manage and recover. Which I will discuss again elsewhere.
Ray
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