Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 13:13:55 -0700 (PDT) From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com> To: jef53313@bayou.uh.edu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Navigator-4.05 Problem? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.980511131152.16236A-100000@foo.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980510223546.22403A-100000@Dorm-35959.RH.UH.EDU>
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On Sun, 10 May 1998, Jonathan Fosburgh wrote: > On Sun, 10 May 1998, Bryan K. Ogawa wrote: > > In localhost.freebsd.questions you write: > > > > >At least since I have been using Navigator-4.05 (2.2.6) I have had > > >the problem of navigator not picking up the bookmarks file when > > >launched, nor does it write the bookmark file back out when > > >closed. Instead, it drops a file in the directory in which Navigator > > >was launched of the form -<pid> which contains the bookmarks. Anyone > > >familiar with this? Is there anything I can do short of going back to > > >4.04? > > > > You might have a LOCK file in your ~/.netscape directory. Try > > removing it (it's usually a symlink). > > > No I'm afraid that wasn't the problem. The lock always gets cleared when I > quit netscape. Just to test, however, I went ahead and rm'd the lock while > netscape was still running, and same problem. Is *anyone* else experiencing > this problem? Perhaps your preferences.js is corrupted? Try grepping ~/.netscape/preferences.js for browser.bookmark_file Mine has a line like: user_pref("browser.bookmark_file", "/home/bkogawa/.netscape/bookmarks.html"); Perhaps Netscape has forgotten where the bookmarks file is kept, or can't read/write the listed filename. bryan k ogawa <bkogawa@primenet.com> http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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