Re: Help transferring Mozilla Bookmarts to root account

[Alan Peery <peery io com>]

Michael Fratoni wrote:

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> On Tuesday 07 January 2003 06:55 am, anthony caskey wrote:
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> > Because of this, my Mozilla bookmarks in my user account are quite
> > extensive, but my bookmarks in my root account are few in number.  How
> > can I transfer my bookmarks from my user account to my root account so
> > I don't have to reinvent the wheel in two accounts?
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> As root:
> copy /home/user/.mozilla/default/*/bookmarks.html to
> /root/.mozilla/root/*/bookmarks.html
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You'd do much better to create a symlink so that when root opens the 
bookmarks file, it gets yours instead.

ln -s ~you/foo/bar/bookmarks.html  ~root/foo/bar/bookmarks.html

Make sure to test how Mozilla behaves when you add a new bookmark as 
root.  It is likely to do something in the code like this command line 
sequence:

cat bookmarks_in_memory > ~/root/foo/bar/bookmarks.html.new
mv ~root/foo/bar/bookmarks.html ~root/foo/bar/bookmarks.html.old   # 
renaming the symlink
mv ~root/foo/bar/bookmarks.html.new ~root/foo/bar/bookmarks.html

This is a technique frequently used for safely writing files and not 
losing data when a disk fills up, but it doesn't interact well with 
symlnk that people put in by hand. :-)

Alan
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Alan Peery
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