Owie!

[swestrup]

Woke up with a migraine today. Took some AC&C and a large strong coffee (which I need to refill -- Okay, did that.) and its blunted it, but its far from gone.

As usual, when I woke up I wasn't even sure it was a migraine. As I stumbled downstairs I was trying to figure out if the throbbing in my temples was a budding migraine, a sinus reaction to too-dry air, or the aftermath of the 4 glasses of wine I had last night.

However, taxlady took one look at me and said "It looks like you're having a migraine" and went and made me a strong coffee while I went back upstairs and found my meds. Sure enough, by the time the coffee was ready a couple of minutes later, there was no doubt.

Luckily, all I had planned to do this morning is start up a data copy of 200 GB from one drive to another, and watch it progress. Even in my current state, that's not too hard to do.

BTW: Firefox dictionary additions: where are they stored. Now that I've gone and installed Firefox afresh on my new system, it doesn't have any of my additions to its completely inadequate dictionaries. Does anyone know how to copy them from my old install, or should I just google for it? (See, it doesn't know about 'Google' as a verb...)

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[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

I always do that with migraines. :p Gah.

Firefox

[pythonian.livejournal.com]

You wrote:
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Firefox dictionary additions: where are they stored. Now that I've gone and installed Firefox afresh on my new system, it doesn't have any of my additions to its completely inadequate dictionaries. Does anyone know how to copy them from my old install, or should I just google for it? (See, it doesn't know about 'Google' as a verb...)
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I'm not sure about add-ons such as dictionaries but I've found the Profile Manager option (via the command line) to be quite useful in reloading one's old Mozilla user profile. I say Mozilla because it works for both Firefox and Thunderbird quite nicely.

Give it a whirl.

Re: Firefox

[swestrup]

It only knows about loading profiles from installed apps. There doesn't seem to be any way to point to an external drive and say 'suck in what's there!'

Re: Firefox

[pythonian.livejournal.com]

You need to copy the profile folder to a location on the hard drive (I copy mine right into the usual location for Mozilla profiles) and then point the manager to that particular profile folder. It takes care of the rest.

I've already done it several times during my PC and Mac migrations.

So, no you don't need to have it installed, unlike a few other apps which will only import from the currently installed competitor. Most e-mail clients are now like that, complicating what used to be a simple operation.

Re: Firefox

[swestrup]

Well, I just discovered that personal dictionary entries are contained in persdict.dat, so I found and copied my old file over, and I seem to have my vocabulary back.

Re: Firefox

[pythonian.livejournal.com]

Which is located in the appropriate profile folder. Therefore, reading in the profile from your backup should give you your old custom dictionary.

Anyway, glad you found a way to get it.

Re: Firefox

[swestrup]

Ah yes, but I never did find any way to tell the profile manager to import profile info from any particular place.

[designergirl.livejournal.com]

That's sweet that taxlady made you some coffee when she saw you were looking a little under the weather with a migraine.