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I use greasemonkey a fair amount. Ran into a problem today, where I’d get a cryptic error containing ‘NS_ERROR_FILE_ALREADY_EXISTS’. After much searching, gnashing of teeth, and some swearing, the fix is pretty simple.
Greasemonkey stores the scripts in your (mozilla profile directory)\gm_scripts directory - simply go in there, delete all of the scripts (I left the config.xml file, though you don’t need to if you are reinstalling all your scripts), then reinstall your scripts. Works like a charm!
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May 25th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
I ran into this as well, and had to do the same thing to fix it. One added problem that I ran into (which led me to the problem posted here) is that, for some inexplicable reason, all of my scripts disappeared from greasemonkey. They all just vanished! Turned out the scripts were actually on the filesystem, but greasemonkey’s config file had lost all references to them. Very strange…
June 7th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Thanks. I read somewhere else the solution to the problem, but they didn’t say where the files were. This fixed it for me.