>> If you've got a network drive mounted you can put a link to somewhere >> on it in place of the ~/.liferea folder and then the different >> machines will share the same profile...<snip>... >> ...I should point out that I haven't tried this so keep a copy of the >> directory safe to put it back if it doesn't work. >> > > I wondered about this, and your suggestion prompted me to try it. > Sadly, it didn't work: Liferea simply didn't open (despite seeming to > spend a short while thinking about starting). And the 'rsync' method > recommended by John and Stuart hasn't worked for me either. > > I suspect the cause of my difficulties may at least in part be that my > NAS drive is formatted FAT32, and therefore does not transfer ownerships > and permissions; and, worse yet, I have a different user name on the > household's main desktop from the one I use on my laptop and my other > machines. > > All in all, I think I'm pushing it a bit to hope Liferea wouldn't mind > this level of scrambling! So when I tried to rsync the profile from the > network to my laptop, I wasn't all that surprised that I'd lost the > folder structure, and many of the feeds seemed to be missing. > > As I said in an earlier post, my experience of running Thunderbird on > all of my computers from a profile on the NAS led me to hope I could get > Liferea to do the same; but I guess Liferea may be a bit more fussy, > and my set up isn't conducive to a simple work around. :-( > > I may do some experiments with a usb drive formatted ext3; but I think > I'll leave things as they are for now. Many thanks to everyone who's > giving advice and suggestions. > > Rsync shouldn't mess up the folder structure, I use it to do backups of my photos, and there are 1,000's of them in hundreds of folders. I'd guess that you've got a dodgy option in there somewhere. If the permissions are getting lost, why not just reset them when you've rsync'ed the files back to the local drive.
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