How does on go about duplicating a profile in PM (for Linux)? I need an exact copy.
I guess it would be the same backing up the profile (which I don't know how to do either), except that I want to be able to actively use both copies for testing and comparison. Thanks.
Duplicating & backing up profiles
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Duplicating & backing up profiles
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Re: Duplicating & backing up profiles
- Create a new "blank" profile using Profile Manager: palemoon -p
- On Linux, your profiles are located under ~/.moonchild productions/pale moon in their separate directories. If you named your new profile "dupe", it will be located in a directory named "XXXXXXXX.dupe", where XX bit is a random string. To back up a profile you simply copy its directory to somewhere safe.
- Now with Pale Moon closed, delete everything inside the "dupe" directory and copy the contents of your original (default) profile there. This transaction might look something like this:
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$ cd "~/.moonchild productions/pale moon" $ ls j38fcbyy.default profiles.ini wngotfnk.dupe $ rm -r wngotfnk.dupe/* $ cp -av j38fcbyy.default/* wngotfnk.dupe/