So a Solomon's choice though one part of the baby is much smaller. It's unfortunate for me that I had many, many bookmarks and I used Scrapbook and doing this will loose all of those, most probably. Especially Scrapbook as FF55 doesn't support it. The ESR release does though. I know that I made the situation very complex by keeping apps and config files for years but being at the level I am I never had any difficulties until the last update (not distro upgrade). Be that as it may I obviously have to take that path (no pun intended-NOT) and muddle through. I used to just copy my entire home directory over to a new install and all my important files would be there. Thunderbird would launc with all of my emails and the files ordered the same. Loosing that would be, well, I can't express that. In any case, I think that I'll use CCC as I have in the past and set the flag for no errors. It will copy everything, junk and all and then I can sift thru the clone instead of trying to track each error with rsync as they occur, Especially since I am vague on that and I'm sorry Mark, that I am that dense. And I mean that too. I would need someone sith me that could pull off the rsync that is more knowledgeable than I on the command line. Old dog, old tricks. So I'll post the results of the cloning, should be fine as it has never failed yet. Then the rest is just a slog. But I have 4 months of down time to figure it out! Whoopie for me!! PS-Mark, the usb drive will not boot into the "try without installing" mode. I can only run a check disc, which shows no errors. Weird that. Many thanks! I'll be in touch Brian On 03/21/2018 03:34 PM, Ted Pomeroy wrote:
NMGLugers, After a reinstall avoid restoring the old settings/config files for your browser and some other applications. Especially if shifting the Desktop environment. Changes in the application and your system and kernel make for problems reading the old files. You can sort through to find a set of bookmarks as a json file and try to copy that to your home directory and then, in Firefox try and Import. If FF balks the file may be incompatible. Re-install is a time to review your settings and preferences and update the User-Mind, ie, make new choices or confirm the old ones. See what you think. Thank you, Ted P.
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 12:30 PM, Mark Galassi <mark@galassi.org <mailto:mark@galassi.org>> wrote:
Brian, please do what I told you to do in private email before you continue this long sequence on the list.
Examine the important directories in your backup to see that they are good. If so then you're done.
Otherwise, after rebooting:
You should fsck the external drive filesystem so that it will mount in read/write mode.
You can remove directories like ~/.mozilla.backup and other volatile stuff before you back up.
Then fix the path to /dev/sd?1 and run the snapshot script.
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