Re: [Hampshire] restoring Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox fr…

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Author: Hugo Mills
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] restoring Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox from backup

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On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 09:17:01AM +0100, Lisi wrote:
> I have tried to do this by various routes, all have failed. The most likely
> to be rescued is my attempt at using mv. But I am clearly getting my syntax
> wrong, because it doesn't work.
>
> mv /home/peter/Thunderbird_backup_files/.thunderbird/59uwmlpn.default
> /home/peter/.thunderbird/8qfkppsa.default
>
> moves 59uwmlpn.default, and places it _inside_ 8qfkppsa.default. What I want
> it to do is rename 59uwmlpn.default to 8qfkppsa.default, and then use it to
> replace the original 8qfkppsa.default.
>
> What is my syntactical error?


You need to move 8qfkppsa.default out of the way first. Use mv to
rename it to something else.

Hugo.

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