[kde-linux] restoring from backup in Konqueror (and Firefox on KDE)

[James Kerr]

On Wednesday 26 Mar 2008, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> First, the background.  I have just done a fresh installation of Debian
> Lenny on a new hard drive.  (I was previously running Etch on a ?slightly
> dicey HDD.  My "home" and "backup" directories each has a separate HDD. 
> I have restored from this configuration without a problem before.
>
> I formatted the HDD containing /home because I feared that it might have
> got corrupted in an attempt to dist-upgrade on the old HDD which went
> pear shaped.  I then did
>
> # cp -Rpu /backup/. /home
>
> once the new installation was complete.
>
> All the files appear to be there.
>
> KDE is now version 3.5.8, KMail 1.9.7 and Konqueror 3.5.8.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>------ **The problem**.
> Although all the data appears to be intact, the settings etc. appear not
> to have transfered to Lenny.  E.g. I have all my emails in KMail, but
> none of the settings, filters etc., which I am therefore having to redo. 
> A pain, but doable.
>
> But Konqueror, in addition to having lost all my settings, has not got my
> bookmarks.  As I say, all the files appear to be there on my /home.
>
> Again, I can redo the settings - tedious, but less so than KMail.  But
> those bookmarks would take an age to recreate, even if I succeeded - and
> I am sure that they are there somewhere.
>
> Has anyone any suggestions for what I might be able to do to retrieve
> them? Is there a file/folder that needs to be linked/loaded/otherwise
> brought into play?
>
> And while we are at it, I have the same question for Firefox/Iceweasel on
> KDE. But I use it far less, so the bookmarks are less valuable - and
> there are fewer of them.
>

I think that you should not have used the -u option with cp. The rc files 
created on installation or first boot will have later dates than your 
backup and so your backup rc files will not have been copied.

Jim