[Solved]"Your profile could not be opened"...error message
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A Former User last edited by
OK, found that directory and elevated my privileges to have a look at it. Thanks for the help on that. But there is no 'Profile' directory or file. There is a 'Preferences' file but it's not editable.
Is there suppose to be a Profiles file?
BTW, I didn't actively do anything to cause this that I know of. It just started happening a couple days ago, seemingly out of the blue. I 'think' it was just after I'd used the Incognitio feature. I certainly didn't actively try to run Opera as Root. I would know that if I had.
Anyone know where this 'Profiles' file might be, and then the big question 'What do I do to it if I find it'?
Thanks.
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A Former User last edited by
@leocg Any idea what this means, "Please check that the profile exists and that you have permission to read and write its contents."?
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
@sgunhouse I do have a folder ~/.config and I changed the ownership of everything in there but when I open config I don't see any Opera folder or file.
Any reason why I wouldn't have that file? Or how do I build one? And if it was there after installing Opera, where did it go?
Thanks!
BTW, in the ubuntu version I have, in the Permissions settings there are Owner, Group, and Folder Access. The Owner setting already gave full access to the /.config folder. I changed Group and Folder Access to allow full access as well.
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
@leocg It says here: /home/jim-hitek/snap/opera/22/.config/opera
But there's nothing in there named Profile. And I changed permissions for the folder.
It must be something I'm doing wrong with setting permissions, I just don't know what...
But what do I do with it if I find it??????
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
After stumbling around for a while trying to fix this error, I changed permission in one of the parent directories and finally got an error message in Opera that mentioned that I didn't have permission to change the profile. And Opera wouldn't open. Now I was getting somewhere! Something to actually fix!
Changing the permissions of the folder mentioned in the error message fixed this issue. The error message no longer appears when I open Opera.
Unfortunately, I got interrupted around that time and I've forgotten which folder it was. But I never did find any mysterious file or folder that could be called 'Profile'. I guess it's what Leocg says, the entire directory is my profile.
Other than the permissions for a folder that I hadn't changed prior to the error message needing to be changed, I can't think of anything unusual that might have caused this error.
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