ASIDE: THANKS THANKS THANKS...in poking around ".config" I found an options file for "simple image reducer" which I had wanted an upgrade to...now don't need, it is there. I added options for larger numbers of pixels, first to reduce panoramic photos from my phone--a 360 panorama cut down to the default 2048 max is useless, and second to not change the size but to take advantage of that program's better compaction than my phone. I can maybe just barely see a difference between the 3.7 MB photo from my phone and my "reduced" with same number of pixels at 834K.
BUT
the correspondance in the snap/brave directory and .config is not obvious to this outsider...
(I've been trying to find a way to copy the directory structure from my file manager to plain text to post here, since I can't send images, no luck)
under snap/brave there are two directories 525 and 531, presumably for two snap levels.
under each of those .local, common, .pki, ,config, current and under some of those BraveSoftware and other directories.
OK, some of those were copied FROM the original .local, .config maybe others so I just ignore, but the remaining files under the snap will have to be manually merged back into multiple directories under my home. I kind of expect "BraveSoftware" will not be a subdirectory under .config, but maybe I am wrong.
I presume likely among the many possible bits I could get wrong, I could just wipe out everything and lose all.
question: If I do an apt install, will that be safe from damaging the snaps? can I install it as Brave2? So if I try to copy individual bits I only risk the new apt install, and the old snap will be unaffected?
Or maybe I should look for a different "secure" browser and just switch, importing profiles or recreating equivalents.
Carey
On 08/12/2025 10:20 AM CDT Mauro Souza via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
No, it won't find your bookmarks, cookies, cache, anything. Not automatically.
A snap is a container, and while your non-snap Chrome stores its files in ~/.config folder, your snap-Chrome will store it on .snap/chrome or something like that. To make it see your non-snap profile, you have to create a link between those two. And if you are abandoning the snap version for good, just move the files to your .config and it will work.
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