> I restored my home directory from backup. Do you still have that backup available? If yes, and if ~/.config/chromium exists in it, you could try replacing ~/snap/chromium/common/chromium with it (better to do a backup of the latter though if you already have configuration worth keeping in your current set up).
> I went looking for chromium installation. I thought I found it on > chromium.org, but I may have gotten it from ubuntu. It was called > chromium-snap The Ubuntu maintained snap has a hook[1] to do the process I suggested above so that one's data does not get lost when transitioning to the snap. One data point worth knowing if you can ascertain that: Which Chromium version was used in the old and current setups? [1]: https://git.launchpad.net/~chromium-team/chromium-browser/+git/snap-from-source/tree/launcher/chromium.launcher?h=stable#n13 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2000396 Title: installing snap chromium trashed my pre-snap files Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Most of my bookmarks, passwords, etc., from the pre-snap version of chromium are gone since I installed snap chromium. Description: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS Release: 22.04 chromium-browser: Installed: 1:85.0.4183.83-0ubuntu2 Candidate: 1:85.0.4183.83-0ubuntu2 Version table: *** 1:85.0.4183.83-0ubuntu2 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status I expected my most recent bookmarks and files to be accessible after replacing the non-snap chromium with the snap chromium Instead, the only version of book marks, configuration, passwords, etc., are several years old To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/2000396/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
