Re: config question re ff history etc
On Thursday 09 May 2019 07:53:44 pm David Wright wrote:
> On Thu 09 May 2019 at 16:26:10 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Thursday 09 May 2019 12:51:24 pm Curt wrote:
> > > On 2019-05-09, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> > > > Greetings all;
> > > >
> > > > I have a need to transfer all the prefs -"saved logins" from a
> > > > wheezy install to a stretch install, separate drives. And
> > > > obviously the stretch firefox is about 20 versions newer. What
> > > > file do I copy from the wheezy drive to the stretch drive so my
> > > > bank knows its me?
> > >
> > > I believe you need the following *two* files:
> > >
> > > key4.db
> > > logins.json
> >
> > Couldn't find it, so I ran updateb with the old drive mounted.
> >
> > key4.db shows up in several places, but it looks like the one I
> > might want is one of these two:
> >
> > this one as its the biggest by quite a bit
> > /home/gene/.mozilla/firefox/73t2g4uq.default/key4.db except its on
> > this drive? But copying it over from the old drive didn't seem to do
> > a thing, and neither did copying logins.json. Firefox has changed a
> > lot since wheezy.
>
> Well, it wouldn't unless you change profiles.ini in the same directory
> to point at the correct path as the default.
>
> Alternatively, assuming you've run FF on the new system (which it
> sounds like you have), you can swap the names of the two directories
> (one from the old system with all your stuff in it, one created on
> the new system which you can eventually delete).
>
> $ ls -l .mozilla/firefox/
> total 16
> drwxr-sr-- 4 flash flash 4096 Mar 25 08:50 Crash Reports
> drwxr-sr-- 21 flash flash 4096 May 9 14:29 jzq80501.default
> drwxr-sr-- 2 flash flash 4096 Sep 9 2018 Pending Pings
> -rw-r--r-- 1 flash flash 94 Sep 16 2009 profiles.ini
> $ cat .mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini
> [General]
> StartWithLastProfile=1
>
> [Profile0]
> Name=default
> IsRelative=1
> Path=jzq80501.default
>
> $
>
> You can see that this user (a non-financial one) has had its profile,
> named jzq80501, for ten years. It's been copied from system to system
> as each machine has had its period of being the one I sit in front of.
> So there are now five copies in various stages of evolution on five
> machines: two desktops and three laptops.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
Thanks David. Printed, for reference and tutorial tomorrow.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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