How does one migrate Chrome browser bookmarks between 32 bit and 64
bit Pi systems?
Am 14.01.2023 um 18:03:51 Uhr schrieb bob prohaska:
How does one migrate Chrome browser bookmarks between 32 bit and 64
bit Pi systems?
Can you export them as HTML?
Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> wrote:
Am 14.01.2023 um 18:03:51 Uhr schrieb bob prohaska:That's what I did.
How does one migrate Chrome browser bookmarks between 32 bit and 64
bit Pi systems?
Can you export them as HTML?
The problem doesn't seem to be with chrome, it's got something to do
with user permissions. The old system came with the default pi user,
plus a regular account which I used for the browser.
The new system has only the user account created when first booted.
Both user account names are the same, but presumably the user id numbers
are different. I thought matching names would be sufficient to let me
read the old files from the new host, but apparently not.
If I try to traverse the old filesystem from the new root system using
the file manager I see see some files and directories, but quite a few
are hidden. In one case I was able to open a graphic, and then got a
belated permission denied message that didn't actually do anything.
That suggests something wrong with permissions handling, but whether on
the new or old system is unclear.
How does one migrate Chrome browser bookmarks between 32 bit and 64 bitwhy do you not sync it with google ?
Pi systems?
The problem doesn't seem to be with chrome, it's got something
to do with user permissions. The old system came with the default
pi user, plus a regular account which I used for the browser.
The new system has only the user account created when first booted.
Both user account names are the same, but presumably the user id
numbers are different. I thought matching names would be sufficient
to let me read the old files from the new host, but apparently not.
Its easy to compare the numeric values associated with user and group
names: either look at the file(s) you're transferring worth 'ls -l' or as root use 'less' to read /etc/passwd for both computers (uid and gid are fields 3 and 4).
Once you know uid and gid for both systems, it should be possible to
modify the files you're importing to suit the system you're importing them
It looks as if sudo works very differently between new and old systems.
I'm no longer prompted for a password when I use sudo, and when I used
sudo to copy the bookmarks file from the old filesystem to the new one
the file owner changed (without comment) to root. It appears that change
was the cause of my difficulties.
why do you not sync it with google ?
bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> wrote:
It looks as if sudo works very differently between new and old systems.
I'm no longer prompted for a password when I use sudo, and when I used
sudo to copy the bookmarks file from the old filesystem to the new one
the file owner changed (without comment) to root. It appears that change
was the cause of my difficulties.
Two things: PiOS never required typing a password for root. If your old system did, you changed it manually (with visudo). And copying with sudo always chowns to root.
bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> wrote:
It looks as if sudo works very differently between new and old systems.
I'm no longer prompted for a password when I use sudo, and when I used
sudo to copy the bookmarks file from the old filesystem to the new one
the file owner changed (without comment) to root. It appears that change
was the cause of my difficulties.
Two things: PiOS never required typing a password for root. If your old system did, you changed it manually (with visudo). And copying with sudo always chowns to root.
Ralph Spitzner wrote:
why do you not sync it with google ?
what a stupid question, sorry
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