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As the title states - I accidentally deleted the two files above and now Chrome is unable to sync when I open it. I've tried to Add password keyring in the Password manager application, but it does not allow me.
It seems that the user.keystore file was automatically replaced, however it is empty.
What should I do to be able to have my chrome settings stored locally again? The files I rm'd were in ~/.local/share/keyrings
Thanks in advance
I suggest creating a new profile for "Chrome", it should work however if you want to recover the files then:
First install testdisk:
sudo apt install testdisk
Then run it:
sudo testdisk
From the Items select "Create", then select your home partition, select "None" then "Advanced" and move the selected item on list:
Now it lets you to go into directories, go to the ~/.local/share/keyrings and see if it show "keyrings" file to you:
Directory /ravexina/.local/share
drwxr-xr-x 1000 1000 4096 18-May-2017 22:44 .
drwxr-xr-x 1000 1000 4096 11-May-2017 20:59 ..
drwxr-xr-x 1000 1000 4096 12-May-2017 12:11 xorg
>drwx------ 1000 1000 4096 11-May-2017 21:26 keyrings
Press c to recover it.
You can try extundelete and hope they haven't been overwritten. boot from a live CD if you have it to minimize the chance of the files being overwritten.
To install:
sudo apt install extundelete
