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Grrr Firefox & IM Restrictions
I'm possibly 3 hrs late with this as it's been a bit hellish at work but ....
:: Que violins :: I lost all my addons , plugins and Web monkey scripts in Firefox  I use Portable Firefox operating out of my home folder at Work. Tonight Firefox decided to bug out and not allow me to load in my Bookmarks. I would open FF and would have no bookmarks avaliable. I was getting a nice red error message come up in the area under the bookmarks bar saying it couldn't load it them as it doesn't have access to some system files or something. The exact error message was in the old profile's history so I can't go back to it. Needless to say I got an help page from some place on Firefox/Mozilla's web site about fixing it. Basically it was a problem with permissions to places.sqlite. As I'm running this at work I won't have much luck attempting to find out what process is using and stopping or running as admin etc etc etc. So I thought... Right ! Let's just rebuild Portable Firefox into a different folder and all the permissions will reset amirite ? So i do.... copy over the bookmark folders over and their backups ... Start up... *BOOM* Bookmarks back ! So I delete my old profile and change the name of the new folder and fix up the shortcut etc...... EXCEPT ! Oh noes ! I've deleted my addons!!! Bai bai Webmonkey Bai bai Adblock . Bai Bai lovely Facebook Webmonkey scripts Bai Bai Flash Player *crys*
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| 12-05-09, 06:13 AM | #2 | ||
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A Flamescale Wyrmkin
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If it's on windows you still have undelete.com right? (or does that not exist any more) For linux systems (specifically debian) : Code:
$ apt-cache search undelete ntfsprogs - tools for doing neat things in NTFS partitions from Linux e2undel - Undelete utility for the ext2 file system magicrescue - recovers files by looking for magic bytes recover - Undelete files on ext2 partitions |
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| 12-05-09, 06:47 AM | #3 | ||
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Giver of walls of text :)
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The other point is most un delete utilites I've found require an admin username and password to properly function. I have no way of elevating or escalating my user permissions in order to run an undelete program like that.
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tuba_man on Apple test labs : "I imagine a brushed-aluminum room with a floor made of keyboards, each one plugged into a different test box somewhere. Someone is tasked with tossing a box full of cats (all wearing turtlenecks) into this room. If none of the systems catch fire within 30 minutes, testing is complete. Someone else must remove the cats. All have iPods." (http://community.livejournal.com/tec...t/2018070.html) |
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| 12-05-09, 10:13 AM | #4 | |
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| 12-05-09, 10:24 AM | #5 | ||
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Giver of walls of text :)
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 I just gotta remember where to find the difficult to restore stuff like the webmonkey scripts and the flash player. Getting this sort of program would require me downloading it at home , putting it on a USB disc, lugging it to work , possibly not being able to install it due to not having an admin user name and password etc etc etc. For me I can do what that program says it does in a tenth of the time it takes to download & install the thing Just got to know where everything is located
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tuba_man on Apple test labs : "I imagine a brushed-aluminum room with a floor made of keyboards, each one plugged into a different test box somewhere. Someone is tasked with tossing a box full of cats (all wearing turtlenecks) into this room. If none of the systems catch fire within 30 minutes, testing is complete. Someone else must remove the cats. All have iPods." (http://community.livejournal.com/tec...t/2018070.html) |
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| 12-05-09, 10:30 AM | #6 | |
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A Pyroguard Emberseer
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| 12-05-09, 12:26 PM | #7 | |
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| 12-05-09, 03:35 PM | #8 | |
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A Molten Giant
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Maybe if one was actually working at work this would have never happened
 j/k Sorry to hear you lost stuff .. hope you can get most of it back some way or another. Losing any type of data just sucks .. I had a HDD failure a while back. I had a back up but it was 6 months old so I lost quite a few things .. some I was even able to recover off the HDD afterwards .. that was when the HDD decided to actually work for a while. |
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Giver of walls of text :)
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IE Facebook will load. Webmarshall will say it's blocked. This script will load the secure version of that page. Should work until they use a hosts file for all sites running through their web proxy server (IE A white list).
Also when it's 4am in the morning and it's quiet who cares what sites your visit ?
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tuba_man on Apple test labs : "I imagine a brushed-aluminum room with a floor made of keyboards, each one plugged into a different test box somewhere. Someone is tasked with tossing a box full of cats (all wearing turtlenecks) into this room. If none of the systems catch fire within 30 minutes, testing is complete. Someone else must remove the cats. All have iPods." (http://community.livejournal.com/tec...t/2018070.html) |
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| 12-06-09, 06:06 AM | #10 | |
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Giver of walls of text :)
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..... Just checked my USB Drive I carry around in my pocket ..... ..... It has this folder in it /Volumes/BLUSSTICK/BACKUP NOT USED FROM WORK FOLDER/FirefoxPortable3.0.5/Data With the following folders inside the Data folder : plugins <---------- has my flash libraries that enable Adobe Flash to work in Portable firefox ! profile/gm_scripts <----- my Grease Monkey scripts. /forehead slap /upload to dropbox.com Well that's a major load off my back now I just need to redo a few of my scripts userscripts.org ! I choose you ! (Grease Monkey not Web Monkey ::roll:
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tuba_man on Apple test labs : "I imagine a brushed-aluminum room with a floor made of keyboards, each one plugged into a different test box somewhere. Someone is tasked with tossing a box full of cats (all wearing turtlenecks) into this room. If none of the systems catch fire within 30 minutes, testing is complete. Someone else must remove the cats. All have iPods." (http://community.livejournal.com/tec...t/2018070.html) |
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