Newly installed debian sid & saved debian wheezy home would like to transfer files
 

I recently installed debian sid & saved my old debian wheezy home, would like to transfer all files & bookmarks from old home to the new home, which are on the same disk.
I already tried to import bookmarks, but firefox doesn't see them. I also copied & pasted the bookmarksbackup but it didn't work.

how did u try to import firefox bookmarks?
did u have a problem finding your bookmarks?
I did the following to try to find solution:
1-I opened my home directory using Nautilus
2- I opened the View menu then chose "Show hidden Files" or simply press Ctrl + h
3- go to the folder .mozilla (notice the dot)
4- go to the folder firefox
5- press Ctrl + f then type "bookmark" (without the quotes)
then you will find your bookmarks
right click on any file you want to copy then



About the other files:
identify the partition holding your root /home directory
if you have problems with this step just ask again in this post
waiting for your move.....

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how did u try to import firefox bookmarks?
did u have a problem finding your bookmarks?
I did the following to try to find solution:
1-I opened my home directory using Nautilus
2- I opened the View menu then chose "Show hidden Files" or simply press Ctrl + h
3- go to the folder .mozilla (notice the dot)
4- go to the folder firefox
5- press Ctrl + f then type "bookmark" (without the quotes)
then you will find your bookmarks
right click on any file you want to copy then



About the other files:
identify the partition holding your root /home directory
if you have problems with this step just ask again in this post
waiting for your move.....

try searching google using the terms "firefox bookmarks backup"

You could copy your ~/.mozilla directory -as well as other important files- from your old Wheezy home to your new Sid's user directory (it will copy all your bookmarks, extensions, configurations) etc. Or you could even tell Sid through /etc/fstab to use the old /home partition as its /home partition (unless you want to delete the old /home partition for some reason).

+1

I myself would just copy it over from one /home to the other, but then again I have had multiple distros/variations and only used 1 /home

@kareempharmacist I only found bookmarksbackup I tried using iceweasel import fnction while the partition was mounted & also tried copy & paste, I can however go thru backup files & copy & enter them 1 x1 in my brouser to save them but that would be very time consuming also limits my learning experience.
I looked at rsync but my understanding of it is that it has to be a functional system, correct me if I am wrong please. I also am however able to copy & paste my documents but that inhibits the learning experience also.
My objective is to do an all-in-one transfer if possible.

I am tring to help you but I don't know exactly what do u want
for learning experience I recommend this book "GNU Linux Basic"

http://ifile.it/k6y3fo/__GNU_Linux_Basic.pdf

I also recoomend reading any book about linux administration specifically file management and file systems.I can Send u links for some books if u want .and anything u didn't understand just ask about it here
I enjoy the learning experience parallel with u

I ended up just doing a copy & paste job, so all of my files & are transfered including firefox bookmarksbackup.html.
The only thing is now I have to decypher the html for my bookmarks &manually put them in.

If you copy your .mozilla directory from your old /home/user directory to the new one, you won't have to mess with individual files manually; the Iceweasel in Sid will use these settings just as the Iceweasel in Wheezy did (you will have all your bookmarks, extensions and settings back).

Cheers.

Thank you I transferred .mozilla to desktop as the path was so long I couldn't get the full path after that I executed "cp -r .mozilla /home/user"
The bookmarks didn't show untill I remove the original,but it worked.

so I think you should now mark it as solved
did you have a look at the book or what ?

I didn't look at the book just searched on line for copy directory command.