Post installation - Firefox and Thunderbird profiles

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Hi,

I was running openSuse 11.3 KDE with separate partitions for boot, root, home. There were also several linux distributions on other partitions. I have made a fresh install of openSuse 11.4 LXDE to my root partition. The home partition was not touched.

My question is how do I get Firefox and Thunderbird to use the profiles that are already there? So when I go to Thunderbird all my contacts and emails are there? Or opening Firefox all the bookmarks are there?

These two are critical at the moment, but eventually I will want to it with other information on my /home directory.

Thank you in advance.

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I think the files you seek (for firefox) used to be in ~/.mozilla/firefox
You’ve said that your home partition was not touched, but are you using the same ‘user’ folder ?
If not, try copying that folder from your old home folder into your new one.

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When you use the same /home directory as before, anmd the same userid, everything belonging to that user should still be there.

You ask, but do you ask before you tried? Or did you try and is it not working a expected?

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On 2012-05-18 10:46, nappy501 wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was running openSuse 11.3 KDE with separate partitions for boot,
> root, home. There were also several linux distributions on other
> partitions. I have made a fresh install of openSuse 11.4 LXDE to my
> root partition. The home partition was not touched.

But is it mounted properly? Did you tell the new install to read the passwd
file?

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

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Hi Everyone,

On Friday evening I spent some time trying to sort this out. Anyway, I won’t tell you how I got there, but I logged out and logged back in and all my stuff was there.

So this is really about the fact that the machine is doing an automatic log in. I don’t remember ticking that I wanted this to happen.

The machine is logging into the other user, which is already there. It only has one icon on the desktop ‘live installer.de’. So when I switch on the machine, I have to log out to log into my user name.

When I log into this user it accepted my password. I can also log into root, which accepts the root password.

So my question is now, how do I stop the machine from logging into this other user?
Or how do I stop automatic login?

Sorry my original title was wrong. I didn’t realise the problem initially.

Regards

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Easiest way is to go to KDE personal settings - Login screen-Convenience and change settings there

Note never ever login to a GUI in Linux as root. You can accidentally damage stuff without trying to.

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I am now running Suse 11.4 LXDE, I will go and investigate how to change it.

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Hi Everyone,

I have finally sorted this out now. I found the answer here:
http://forums.opensuse.org/forums/english/get-technical-help-here/how-faq-forums/unreviewed-how-faq/412554-disable-auto-login.html

All done GUI which suits me down to the ground.

Regards

Nappy501