> 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."
You should not need to do so, the official snap is supposed to do that automatically and seamlessly via the hook I pointed to in my previous comment. -- 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
