Faulty Software Updater on 16.04

[Colin Law]

On 11 October 2017 at 06:59, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/10/2017, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 03:40:24 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>>>It is a brute force kind of thing, and I lost all of my sessions
>>>history, for the last however many years, about which, I am not very
>>>happy.
>>
>> Do you own a backup of your $HOME or at least of the Firefox
>> default profile made before you refreshed Firefox?
>>
>
> I did not create a backup before I refreshed firefox, so, I assume
> that I do not have either of the backups.

When you refresh firefox it makes a new profile but should keep the
old one. If you look in ~/.mozilla/firefox the profile folders have
names like <random_string>.default. If you have two of these then one
will be the original. Look at the timestamps on the files in there (or
on the folder) to see which is the old one. Shutdown firefox fully
then copy all the contents of the old one into the new one (maybe a
good idea to make a copy of the new one first). Restart FF and you
should be back where you started.

Colin

>
> My home directory (I assume that is what is meant by $HOME) uses about
> 48GB, of which about 18.5GB is my alpine mail directory.
>
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