Re: How to recover the lost bookmarks
pradeeps@ncbs.res.in wrote:
Recently Galeon crashed and after trying to re-execute, it
showed the error called " Cannot find a schema for galeon
preferences". I fixed as instructed in the site :
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200108/msg01896.html
" But galeon started fresh and all my previous book marks are lost.
Can you kindly(please) guide me how can I recover my 4mts of work.
Not being familiar with gconf, I'm not sure what this sequence does:
$ gconftool --shutdown
$ su -
$ GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=xml::/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults gconftool
However, since you say "galeon started fresh", I suspect that among
other things it either wiped out your ~/.galeon directory, in which case
you'll need to restore if from backup (you do have a backup, right?), or
it just created a new set of default bookmarks. If I understand the way
Galeon works (and I don't, as I seldom use it), it keeps several backups
of the bookmarks file (nice feature!). Look in ~/.galeon for some files
like "bookmarks.xml.[some number]". I suspect the lowest- or
non-numbered file is the most recent (hence, broken in your case), and
the next highest-numbered file is that last backup.
I'd make a copy of the galeon directory just for backup purposes during
this step (cp -r ~/.galeon ~/.galeon.20Oct2003), then copy the "good"
file over the "bad" file (cp ~/.galeon/bookmarks.xml.1
~/.galeon/bookmarks.xml) and start up Galeon and see if that fixed the
problem.
--
Kent
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