Hello friends, I use opera as my default browsers and prefer to store all my passwords in the wand. I am presently using slackware and SUSE but now I plan to format my computer and install Debian. I don't have any important data. I only need my opera bookmarks, which I have backed up and my password wand. Can anyone help me there? Thank you.
mehul wrote:
I am presently using slackware and SUSE but now I plan to format my computer and install Debian. I don't have any important data. I only need my opera bookmarks, which I have backed up and my password wand.
Generally a hidden folder with the same name is created in your home directory. In your case check out the .opera directory in your home folder. cd ls -a cd .opera
Copy this entire folder and save it somewhere else. Delete the existing .opera folder. Remove Opera and install it again. Paste this folder in your home directory and check it out before you do the actual format. I do this with Thunderbird across different platforms. All my emails, folders, accounts and their passwords remain intact. It is as if I am already using it in the new system.
Before you remove or format your linux partition, if you have Windows, then mount one of its partitions and backup your data into that. After that you can delete or format the balance linux partitions.
Regards,
Rony.
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On 12/4/05, Rony Bill ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
mehul wrote:
I am presently using slackware and SUSE but now I plan to format my computer and install Debian. I don't have any important data. I only need my opera bookmarks, which I have backed up and my password wand.
Generally a hidden folder with the same name is created in your home directory. In your case check out the .opera directory in your home folder. cd ls -a cd .opera
Copy this entire folder and save it somewhere else. Delete the existing .opera folder. Remove Opera and install it again. Paste this folder in your home directory and check it out before you do the actual format. I do this with Thunderbird across different platforms. All my emails, folders, accounts and their passwords remain intact. It is as if I am already using it in the new system.
Before you remove or format your linux partition, if you have Windows, then mount one of its partitions and backup your data into that. After that you can delete or format the balance linux partitions.
Thanks rony I did find the folder and saved wand.dat file. I just want to know now that there won't be any problems with permissions?
mehul wrote:
Thanks rony I did find the folder and saved wand.dat file. I just want to know now that there won't be any problems with permissions?
After you create the new system, you can ....
chown user_name:group_name wand.dat
Regards,
Rony.
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On 12/4/05, Rony Bill ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
mehul wrote:
Thanks rony I did find the folder and saved wand.dat file. I just want to know now that there won't be any problems with permissions?
After you create the new system, you can ....
chown user_name:group_name wand.dat
All right thanks to all of you that will be enough for me.
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 19:02 +0530, mehul wrote:
I am presently using slackware and SUSE but now I plan to format my computer and install Debian. I don't have any important data. I only need my opera bookmarks, which I have backed up and my password wand. Can anyone help me there?
Do you have /home on a separate partition? It is a good practice to have /home on a separate partition; you avoid the need to recreate the data when you reinstall.
On 12/4/05, Arun K. Khan knura@yahoo.com wrote:
Do you have /home on a separate partition? It is a good practice to have /home on a separate partition; you avoid the need to recreate the data when you reinstall.
No I don't have home on different partition. But, I will remember that in future. Tank you arun.
On Sunday 04 Dec 2005 8:45 pm, Arun K. Khan wrote:
Do you have /home on a separate partition? It is a good practice to have /home on a separate partition; you avoid the need to recreate the data when you reinstall.
also a good idea to keep /home as well as all important config files under version control remotely
On 12/5/05, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@thenilgiris.com wrote:
also a good idea to keep /home as well as all important config files under version control remotely Can you elobrate how to do that?
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