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I get this error :

.config/google-chrome/Default/Bookmarks.bak: Permission denied

How can I get acces? I want to be able to change the name in bookmarks, as to restore the bookmarks folder I cut and lost in Chrome. It's a months work in bookmarks and I need it for my study. Anyone please?

Byte Commander
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    To check the permissions, run ls -l .config/google-chrome/Default/Bookmarks.bak. – mikewhatever Sep 22 '15 at 09:58
  • Thanks Mike! This is the answer: -rw------- 1 ninti ninti 958059 sep 22 09:53 .config/google-chrome/Default/Bookmarks.bak What to do? – Saskia Sep 22 '15 at 10:16
  • What command did you run to get the original error? Are you running it as the user ninti? – AJefferiss Sep 22 '15 at 10:26
  • If you are ninti, you should have no problem opening the file with e.g. gedit ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Bookmarks.bak . Otherwise, do sudo chmod a+r ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Bookmarks.bak. – Jos Sep 22 '15 at 10:27
  • I am a newbie.... but I am not going to give up on Ubuntu. I didn't know I had to give the command gedit. Now I have permission. Can I just change the name of the Bookmarks.bak file into Bookmarks? THANKS a lot! Without help from this forum I wouldn't be able to work with Ubuntu. – Saskia Sep 22 '15 at 10:31
  • I do not use Chrome so I don't know what files it wants, but if the bookmarks.bak file was just created as copy of a former bookmarks file, you should be fine. Maybe you want to rename the current bookmarks file to bookmark.bak2 first, in case it goes wrong? – Byte Commander Sep 22 '15 at 10:34
  • gedit is just one of the programs you can use to open and/or edit the file. There are others. First, back up your current Bookmarks file (even though it seems useless now): cd ~/.config/google-chrome/Default followed by cp Bookmarks Bookmarks-old. Then, rename the backup file: mv Bookmarks.bak Bookmarks. – Jos Sep 22 '15 at 10:36
  • I copied the commands, nothing seems to work, I might not have done it right. This is what shows in the terminal: cd ~/.config/google-chrome/Default cp Bookmarks Bookmarks-old mv Bookmarks.bak Bookmarks – Saskia Sep 22 '15 at 10:41
  • Try closing Google Chrome when renaming Bookmarks.back, the permissions look ok, nothing to be done there. – mikewhatever Sep 22 '15 at 10:47
  • ok, I forgot to close Google Chrome. The permissions are fine. But how to rename it? I've given the commands as outlined by Jos, nothing happened. Than I put gedit in front of the commands and it opened windows. Can you please tell me step by step how to rename? By save as? I am sorry I know so little...ninti@ninti-K52Jc:~$ gedit mv Bookmarks.bak Bookmarks

    (gedit:5838): Gtk-WARNING **: Inhibit called with an unrealized window

     – Saskia Sep 22 '15 at 10:50
  • You've got the commands a little mixed up there, gedit will take the arguments you've given it as files to open. So you've told gedit to open the mv, Bookmarks.bak and Bookmarks files. The mv command should should just be mv Bookmarks.bak Bookmarks, see my answer. – AJefferiss Sep 22 '15 at 10:55
  • I am sorry... I've closed all the windows the terminal opened, without saving changes. And now I get the line: cannot stat ‘/home/ninti/.config/google-chrome/Default/Bookmarks.bak’: No such file or directory. So I must have done everything wrong. I need to learn myself a lot! I still have google chrome open, so the bookmarks.bak won't be lost. – Saskia Sep 22 '15 at 11:00
  • nautilus --browser ~/.config/google-chrome/Default Thats what you mean with open a file browser I guess? ;) – Saskia Sep 22 '15 at 11:12
  • I can't find hidden files though.......... – Saskia Sep 22 '15 at 11:15
  • To show hidden files press Ctrl+H and have a look at this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/470837/how-to-show-hidden-folders-in-14-04-ubuntu – AJefferiss Sep 22 '15 at 12:40

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To restore the Chrome bookmarks you need to rename the Bookmarks.bak file to Bookmarks. To do that you just need to open a file browser and navigate to the .config/google-chrome/Default directory. You'll need to show hidden files by going to View->Show hidden files first as any directory/folder which starts with a . in Linux is hidden. Then with Chrome closed, delete the current Bookmarks file and rename the Bookmarks.bak file.

Alternatively you can open a terminal and use the mv command

mv ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Bookmarks.bak ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Booksmarks
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