Re: Time to refresh my hardware

2019-10-11 Thread Robert G (Doc) Savage via users
On Wed, 2019-10-09 at 22:08 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > My C++ compiles are getting longer. It's time to get new hardware, > but I'm > having some difficulty finding Fedora-friendly hardware, that's > slightly > above average grade, such as dual CPU and spinning rust (I haven't > gotten >

Re: upgrade to f30: how to recover lost Thunderbird data?

2019-10-11 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> You really need to be sure that Thunderbird has fully quit running >> before backing up its database. Bill: > Understood. That's how I did it. Just triple-checking: Exiting the program in the usual may not be enough. That may just close down your user-interface. It could be still runn

Re: upgrade to f30: how to recover lost Thunderbird data?

2019-10-11 Thread home user
(responding to sixpack13) > the thunderbird directory should named .thunderbird > > NO "_old" or other endings ! > it should named as it was before thunderbird upgrade ! Either I worded something incorrectly or you misunderstood something. I have 3 directories: thunderbird_old thunderbird_new .thu

Re: Time to refresh my hardware

2019-10-11 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2019-10-11 at 21:27 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Maybe I'm off base, but who still puts button cell batteries on their > motherboards? Just about every board I've seen... It's for the clock, more than anything else. I've seen (old) systems that used a rechargeable battery, instead, bu

Re: upgrade to f30: how to recover lost Thunderbird data?

2019-10-11 Thread home user
(replying to Ed) > When you launch TBird and go to "Help-->About", > what version does it show? > > F30 is currently at 68.1.0 When I started this thread, I was at 68.1. Earlier this evening, following the instructions from sixpack13, I went back to 60.8. I hope to get back to 68.1 tomorrow mo

Re: Time to refresh my hardware

2019-10-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/11/19 6:27 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: My requirements are not very stringent. Onboard video and audio will do, as long as it works out of the box with x.org, and has reasonable compositing and can keep up with full screen video playback. Dual 1GB NIC, a pair of SATA drives, and then as ma

Re: Time to refresh my hardware

2019-10-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Tim via users writes: On Wed, 2019-10-09 at 22:08 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > My C++ compiles are getting longer. It's time to get new hardware, > but I'm having some difficulty finding Fedora-friendly hardware, > that's slightly above average grade, such as dual CPU and spinning > rust (I h

Re: upgrade to f30: how to recover lost Thunderbird data?

2019-10-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/12/19 4:37 AM, home user wrote: You have launched an older version of Thunderbird When you launch TBird and go to "Help-->About", what version does it show? F30 is currently at 68.1.0 -- If simple questions can be answered with a simple google query then why are there so many of them?

Re: upgrade to f30: how to recover lost Thunderbird data?

2019-10-11 Thread sixpack13
arrrggghhh, I overlooked this ! ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guideli

Re: upgrade to f30: how to recover lost Thunderbird data?

2019-10-11 Thread sixpack13
.. > 5. I removed the restored .thunderbird (rm -rf .thunderbird). > 6. I restored the new .thunderbird (mv thunderbird_new .thunderbird) > I've since again restored the back-up .thunderbird to my home directory > as "thunderbird_old". > Currently, in thunderbird_old, I have this: ... to me the a

Re: upgrade to f30: how to recover lost Thunderbird data?

2019-10-11 Thread home user
(responding to Samuel) > That seems to be a rather important statement. What happened? > Make sure you have the latest Thunderbird installed. When I click the "Help" and select "About Thunderbird", it says it's version 68.1.0. The text in the messagebox seems backwards to me.  I'm trying to use

Re: upgrade to f30: how to recover lost Thunderbird data?

2019-10-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/11/19 1:37 PM, home user wrote: 4. I launched thunderbird from the Gnome Activities.  This resulted in a message box saying: - You have launched an older version of Thunderbird That seems to be a rather important statement. What happened? Make sure you have the latest Thunderbird

Re: upgrade to f30: how to recover lost Thunderbird data?

2019-10-11 Thread home user
(responding to Tim) > You really need to be sure that Thunderbird has fully quit running before backing up its database. Understood.  That's how I did it.  More below (in my response to sixpack13) (responding to sixpack13) > And what does this mean ? 1. I exited Thunderbird. 2. I renamed ".th

Re: Time to refresh my hardware

2019-10-11 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2019-10-09 at 22:08 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > My C++ compiles are getting longer. It's time to get new hardware, > but I'm having some difficulty finding Fedora-friendly hardware, > that's slightly above average grade, such as dual CPU and spinning > rust (I haven't gotten quite aboar

Re: /dev/null is full ???

2019-10-11 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 3:28 PM Ed Greshko wrote: > On 10/8/19 8:24 PM, Tom H wrote: >> >> But the OP actually wanted "if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null". I'm not >> sure that "if=/dev/null of=/dev/sdb" does much, but I wouldn't >> test it on a partition whose data I'd prefer not to lose:) > > I've shown in

Re: Time to refresh my hardware

2019-10-11 Thread George N. White III
On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 at 09:15, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > George N. White III writes: > > > In general, multiple CPU's only make sense if you need more cores than > you > > can get (or afford) on one CPU. The exception might be cases like > compiles > > where there are lots of independent processe

Re: upgrade to f30: how to recover lost Thunderbird data?

2019-10-11 Thread sixpack13
> I tried it.  It did not work. And what does this mean ? You do have a backup and copy over doesn't work or you don't have a backup ? you should be more specific, cause nobody knows what's currently up with your box ! if you got a backup: === do you have the *elder* files ~/.thunde