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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: guncrasher on July 11, 2016, 09:54:06 PM

Title: user profile
Post by: guncrasher on July 11, 2016, 09:54:06 PM

I got stupid and I hid my user profile in c:\users

now I have no web browsers . I did it using properties and checking box read only and hidden in attributes.


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Title: Re: user profile
Post by: guncrasher on July 11, 2016, 10:02:37 PM

never mind I figured it out.  :bhead


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Title: Re: user profile
Post by: guncrasher on July 11, 2016, 10:08:10 PM

nope I can see the folders but both Mozilla and blue moon day they're already running


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Title: Re: user profile
Post by: guncrasher on July 12, 2016, 12:08:24 PM

fixed it. only way I could do it was do a system restore to the day before.  palemoon worked but not firefox.  had to restore the profile for firefox to last week. both are working fine now.


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Title: Re: user profile
Post by: Chalenge on July 12, 2016, 06:36:27 PM

You should have been able to unhide the folders by going into the view options?

Title: Re: user profile
Post by: guncrasher on July 12, 2016, 07:26:36 PM

that's the first thing I did.  but for some reason both Firefox and palemooon could not access the profiles. so they wouldn't open.  kept seeing this it's already open message.


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Title: Re: user profile
Post by: Chalenge on July 12, 2016, 11:20:21 PM

Both of them place their cache/temporary folder in there. I'm not sure it's even a good idea to move the folders. I have, but I think at least one browser freaked out (might have been Chrome, or Safari).

Title: Re: user profile
Post by: guncrasher on July 13, 2016, 12:40:48 AM

yeah it was a lesson learned.  was trying to unhide the files without actually knowing what I was doing.  I think somehow I made the files read only.


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