I only keep one backup, so it has been rewritten several times since the incident.
The problem with conversion to snap is that nothing says ahead of time, "Oh by the way you need to take these steps to preserve your data because the snap mechanism may destroy it." I cannot tell you which version of chromium was used in the old setup. On 1/3/23 10:05, Nathan Teodosio wrote: >> 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 > -- Kathleen M. Caywood, emailkmcayw...@cox.net -- 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 : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
