From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 12 22:00:28 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B85EBE8 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:00:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tomek.cedro@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qa0-f47.google.com (mail-qa0-f47.google.com [209.85.216.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81107694 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:00:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qa0-f47.google.com with SMTP id j8so1875524qah.13 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:00:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=QDwnKGy54/dE38mCpXj6vgoqVoP+BW4YbGzGRFgjHw8=; b=xTDQWHi80RQ/HPdYfjMgSLLP2aIY9Sh1xKYJFxpTKc8hYFOkBZHqBo4yQlF64JQ2cd MpBDIQKrWY77YrBW9g6zCHOHn+HHgWBco6BzubZYxJCDtMc9L5MPUwXs1JVxGir1dt4s DJssYFUmUMOL81uk58bJ0LVm+uO4sb2mDVuVZx7o+burgrsnJ+iefKK9vCFOAnBf61it MdH+jOb4tFSV2QZ116TV4M03fXp4Wvi+TxZkRmelcY5WSqhn3AtZzh7c84DbK5wTD3+8 xhfc670DPlPUS9AUu348FoELCt80qVPyhrAIqp7RDYhrHE7xr3sw5OlhLu2t1lkBw0AT rUhg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.224.186.81 with SMTP id cr17mr7467948qab.99.1360706421930; Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:00:21 -0800 (PST) Sender: tomek.cedro@gmail.com Received: by 10.49.71.204 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:00:21 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <49865.1360705091@server1.tristatelogic.com> References: <49865.1360705091@server1.tristatelogic.com> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:00:21 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: kw0FjhahPdeaOSsJ-HxxSfWEkxo Message-ID: Subject: Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?) From: CeDeROM To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:00:28 -0000 On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette 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