copying all chrome config data to different user

[David L]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 8:17 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 23 March 2018 at 14:57, David L <david4lists at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 1:17 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On 23 March 2018 at 00:33, David L <david4lists at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 10:34 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
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>>>> It's not a bad idea to try to backup and restore application
>>>> configuration data. If my hard drive crashed and I didn't want to copy
>>>> every bit of cruft from my backup, I'd have the same question. Please stop
>>>> telling me what I want to do is a bad idea... if you don't know how to do
>>>> something that is obviously possible and the rational thing to do in some
>>>> circumstances, just don't respond.
>>>>
>>>
>>> What evidence to you have to support the suggestion that it is
>>> possible?  It is obviously not clear how to do it or you would have had a
>>> solution a long time ago.
>>>
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>> If I copy the entire home directory, it works. If I copy the entire home
>> directory minus a few obviously unrelated files, it works. Therefore, there
>> exists a subset of my home directory that makes it work. I'm looking for
>> the smallest subset.
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> OK, I missed the bit where you told us that.  In that case it could be the
> passwords and keys file as I suggested, I believe they are in
> .gnome2/keyrings or .local/share/keyrings, or possibly elsewhere dependent
> on which version of ubuntu you are using.  Whether those contents will work
> across Ubuntu versions is another matter of course.
>

Thanks Colin... that's what I suspect is going on. I think it should work
across Ubuntu versions assuming that I'm going from an older version to a
newer version (otherwise every time somebody upgraded, they'd lose all of
their passwords). I'll give it a try and post my results.
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