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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?

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    To check the permissions, run ls -l .config/google-chrome/Default/Bookmarks.bak. Sep 22, 2015 at 9:58
  • 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, 2015 at 10:16
  • What command did you run to get the original error? Are you running it as the user ninti?
    – AJefferiss
    Sep 22, 2015 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, 2015 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, 2015 at 10:31

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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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