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Symlinks and syncs browser profile dirs to RAM thus reducing HDD/SDD calls and speeding-up browsers.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Profile-sync-daemon
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Which firefox folder to copy after insuccessful termination? #293

Closed gruentee closed 3 years ago

gruentee commented 3 years ago

Hello,

thanks for making profile-sync-daemon.

I had a few system freezes/power outages and afterwards wondered which folders to copy where in order to make psd work again. ArchWiki uses a Chromium example but is unclear about Firefox. Moreover it says

Confirm that there is no symlink to the tmpfs browser profile directory. If there is, psd did not stop correctly for other reasons.

I always have this dangling symlink and deleted it in order to copy the firefox-backup folder to it's original location (after having stopped psd). Upon restarting psd it fails. Only when manually executing psd p afterwards it starts again.

So - what to do after unexpected shutdown or power outage when using Firefox?

graysky2 commented 3 years ago

You shouldn't need to copy things over these days, the script should recover itself. Post the output of psd p. Also know that psd p does not do any recovery, it simply parses the config and shows you stats.

gruentee commented 3 years ago

Hi, thanks for your quick response. I don't have psd p's output at hand atm. I'll have to reproduce the error to get it. It was something along the lines "firefox folder already exists, copying to new location …".