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Firefox extension to automatically open websites in a container
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Lost all my rules #152

Open akasaka99 opened 3 years ago

akasaka99 commented 3 years ago

Hi- After a sudden crash of FF 85 on MacOs (13.6) , I lost all my Container Rules and could not find them even though i used FF sync. However, I make regular disk backups so I presume I could recover those rules somewhere. Could someone tell me which are the file(s) that I wuld need to use to recover my rules. Many thanks !

michaelrigart commented 3 years ago

@akasaka99 : I encountered the same issue 3 days ago ( macOS 11.2.1 BigSur) . But I was unable to recover the rules so I had to reconfigure then. I'm now keeping a separate csv file just in case this might happen again.

akasaka99 commented 3 years ago

Yes I had to it all over again, its a real pain. I found your could recover the containers in your FF profile in the file containers.json but only the containers not the rules. Do you mind explaining: 1) What format/column you use for your cvs file: [url, container_name] I presume? 2) Where do you store this cvs file aftwerards (in FF profile) when you want for instance to reinstate back all those containers rules. And you know which name it should be stored under? Or maybe you have some doc as I cant find anything to reinstate those containers rule again. Thanks !

michaelrigart commented 3 years ago

@akasaka99

  1. Yes, de csv I'm keeping as a backup is indeed comma separated with url, container_name.
  2. I keep the csv file somewhere in my documents folder, not in the FF profile. This way it is present in my own backups.
akasaka99 commented 3 years ago

Yes indeed. And in case there's another problem with FF, how do you import those data that you saved back into your containers? Or you just re-enter everything manually?

michaelrigart commented 3 years ago

No, I open the csv file in a text editor and just copy-paste the content of my csv-file into the csv-editor of Containerise

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akasaka99 commented 3 years ago

Wow, I learned something, I had not clue there was a containerise cvs editor. I just looked into FF about:addons and I see the only General Preferences and Containers Preferences but I cant see containerise cvs editor. Where is the editor pls?

michaelrigart commented 3 years ago

You can open the plugin from your plugin-toolbar. On the right-side, you have the little pencil icon ;) . Just click on it and it will open the csv-editor.

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akasaka99 commented 3 years ago

Excellent. Many thanks for your help !!! Have a great day

designt commented 3 years ago

Well I need a backup the csv file, what's the path to that file ? Thanks