copying all chrome config data to different user

[Colin Law]

On 23 March 2018 at 14:57, David L <david4lists at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 1:17 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 23 March 2018 at 00:33, David L <david4lists at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 10:34 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> It's not a bad idea to try to backup and restore application
>>> configuration data. If my hard drive crashed and I didn't want to copy
>>> every bit of cruft from my backup, I'd have the same question. Please stop
>>> telling me what I want to do is a bad idea... if you don't know how to do
>>> something that is obviously possible and the rational thing to do in some
>>> circumstances, just don't respond.
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>> What evidence to you have to support the suggestion that it is possible?
>> It is obviously not clear how to do it or you would have had a solution a
>> long time ago.
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> If I copy the entire home directory, it works. If I copy the entire home
> directory minus a few obviously unrelated files, it works. Therefore, there
> exists a subset of my home directory that makes it work. I'm looking for
> the smallest subset.
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OK, I missed the bit where you told us that.  In that case it could be the
passwords and keys file as I suggested, I believe they are in
.gnome2/keyrings or .local/share/keyrings, or possibly elsewhere dependent
on which version of ubuntu you are using.  Whether those contents will work
across Ubuntu versions is another matter of course.

Colin
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