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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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