On Mon, 2025-12-15 at 20:53 -0700, home user via users wrote: > I have a strong sense that experienced professional systems > administrators would have solved this much more directly, easily, and > quickly with a single command line command. But my steps above did work. > > I'm tagging this SOLVED, but I urge anyone else that has this problem to > check with pros for a better, quicker, simpler solution rather than > trying my got-lucky steps.
I have a sneaking suspicion that you can create a new user who's homespace already exists with files in it. Try creating a brand new user. Log in as them, create some files, browse the web, bookmark some files. Log out. Remove that user but not their files. Create a new user and specify same location for their homespace as before, make sure the UID & GID are the same as the old user account. Log in as a new user, check you can access the saved files. Open the web browser, see if the history and bookmarks are there, and work. A gotcha in creating new users to replace old ones is that the numerical UID & GID must match. And it will if the old removed user was the highest UID numbers in use. Or you'll have to chown all their files to suit the new ones. e.g. chown -R example:example /home/example -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
