Your $USER folder IS /Rowan - $USER is a term for 'your username here'. .mozilla is a hidden folder ( as is any folder beginning in a . ), so open up /home/Rowan and press ctrl + H, I think, to show all hidden folders. Press this key combo again to hide them.
Simon Wears munkyju...@gmail.com http://MunkyJunky.com | http://Twitter.com/MunkyJunky MunkyJunky on irc.freenode.net On 15 Mar 2009, at 12:30, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berke...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I don't seem to have a /home/$USER/ folder. There's nothing in /home/ > except /Rowan/, and nothing in /Rowan/ except /examples/. > > I did see a folder called /Lost & Found/ but it disappeared when I > tried > to open it, after telling me I didn't have permission to do so. > > On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 10:24 +0000, mac wrote: >> Sean Miller wrote: >>> I don't think plug-ins get installed in the home directory, do they? >>> >>> If so, then it presumably would be easy to ditch them... just an "rm >>> -rf .mozilla" or whatever the directory is... next time Firefox >>> starts >>> it can re-configure itself back to default. >> >> AFAIK, your whole profile for Firefox is in /home/$USER/.mozilla/ >> firefox/ >> >> and has a name of the form 'xxxxxxxx.default' where the x's are a >> meaningless sequence of letters and numbers. >> >> If you close Firefox and delete the xxxxxxxx.default directory, >> Firefox >> will create a new 'vanilla' profile when you restart it. (Extensions >> are stored in the particular profile they refer to, so they'll go. >> You >> will, of course, lose any bookmarks and other personalisations - >> though >> you can save the bookmarks.html file, and restore to your new >> profile.). >> Anyway, there's no need to reinstall the whole of Firefox if it's >> not >> broken. I'd be inclined to try deleting the profile first; you can >> always do a complete reinstall if it's really necessary. >> >> HTH >> >> mac >> > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
