Comment 27 for bug 912909

(In reply to comment #10)
> i have a backup,
> but: does it possibly contain passwords or thumbnails or so? *blush* :-)

Not sure about passwords, pretty sure it doesn't contain thumbnails. I've just attached the source code to a simple program which dumps dconf databases in a readable format.

To build it, you need development tools and the glib2-devel and dconf-devel packages installed. Compile instructions are in the comment at the beginning of the file.

Please run the program as follows:

0) Compile it as described in the file
1) Copy the old dconf/user file to ~/.config/dconf/old
2) Dump the old database: ./dconf-dump old > /tmp/dconf-old.out
3) Dump the current database: ./dconf-dump user > /tmp/dconf.out
4) Find out the differences: diff -u /tmp/dconf-old.out /tmp/dconf.out > /tmp/dconf-diff.txt
5) Review /tmp/dconf-diff.txt and edit out any passwords or other private data
6) Attach the file containing the differences (/tmp/dconf-diff.txt) to this ticket.

Thanks!