On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:17:46 -0700 Sevatio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just installed LM8.2... Now, I'm trying to regain the settings and > mail boxes from Mozilla from a previous Mandrake. I'm restored the > ".mozilla" folder but Mozilla can't see the mail boxes nor can it see > the account settings. How do you get Mozilla to see these things? > > Sevatio > > there's a high chance you have different user ID's on those files if they were created in a prior OS. it's not mozilla's fault. if you are in KDE, right click the .mozilla folder ( or any of it's contents) and check file owner and permissions. they should be set to the right username. but if you just see a number i.e. owner: 501 group: 501 then you have to reset them by doing a chown -r yourusername:yourusergroup ~/.mozilla yourusername and yourusergoup being........ yes, your user name, and group.. ( or just username:username will work too. ) HTH Damian
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