[ale] How could I have avoided this?

[John Mills]

Robert -

Excellent point. Next time I'll try to remember, "Think first, delete 
afterwards." Thanks.

 - Mills

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Robert Reese wrote:

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> On 10/26/2007 at 8:35 PM John Mills wrote:
 
> > [snip] I gave up and 
> >just blew away my '~/.mozilla/firefox' directory, taking with it my 
> >bookmarks, etc.

> >How could I just have removed whatever tag was preventing Firefox from 
> >starting a new session?
 
> Couldn't you have simply renamed the offending directory so the
> bookmarks, etc. could have been rescued?  I use that trick frequently to
> preserve the data while removing its viability.

Wish I'd thought that clearly at the time!