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Date:      Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:00:21 +0100
From:      CeDeROM <cederom@tlen.pl>
To:        "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)
Message-ID:  <CAFYkXjmA_DTP=Bzf=D%2BQSw890tbrz0%2BZNTiLaWNj=DmR749sKA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette
<rfg@tristatelogic.com> wrote:
> Looking into this issue a bit deeper, I've now learned that all of
> one's personal settings are stored in a directory having a name which
> has the following general form:
>         ~/.mozilla/firefox/????????.default

Hey Ronald, are you sure there is no corruption on the disk? Have you
preformatted your new drive? I had disks that lost data if used with
no pre-format stage. Have you tried forcing fsck? Sometimes when my
machine crash there is a silent corruption on the filesystem and some
settings are lost/changed...

-- 
CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info



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