[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2000396] Re: installing snap chromium trashed my pre-snap files

2023-03-05 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
[Expired for chromium-browser (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 2000396] Re: installing snap chromium trashed my pre-snap files

2023-01-04 Thread Kathleen Caywood
The files in ~/.config/chromium are over 2 years old.  It is no help at all. On 1/4/23 05:45, Nathan Teodosio wrote: >> 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

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 2000396] Re: installing snap chromium trashed my pre-snap files

2023-01-04 Thread Nathan Teodosio
> 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

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 2000396] Re: installing snap chromium trashed my pre-snap files

2023-01-03 Thread Kathleen Caywood
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

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 2000396] Re: installing snap chromium trashed my pre-snap files

2023-01-03 Thread Nathan Teodosio
> 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

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 2000396] Re: installing snap chromium trashed my pre-snap files

2023-01-03 Thread Kathleen Caywood
On 1/3/23 08:45, Nathan Teodosio wrote: > This was confusing to me. > > > I replaced my boot drive, which also had /home on it. > > So you would no longer have user configuration files in your new set up. I restored my home directory from backup. > > > and installed chromium from your

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2000396] Re: installing snap chromium trashed my pre-snap files

2023-01-03 Thread Nathan Teodosio
This was confusing to me. > I replaced my boot drive, which also had /home on it. So you would no longer have user configuration files in your new set up. > and installed chromium from your website What do you mean? ** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete