copying all chrome config data to different user

[David L]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 10:34 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 22 March 2018 at 17:45, David L <david4lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have dozens of profiles and I simply want to have them seamlessly work
> in
> > the same computer when using an alternate boot partition. There is no
> reason
> > that the use of the cloud should be necessary to share data on the same
> > computer
>
> Yes, there is, and you answer this yourself later in your post.
>
> This is why:
>
> > First, sharing the profile by sharing the user-data-dir doesn't work for
> > passwords.
>
> Also:
>
> > Second, when I went back to 16.10
>
> Do you mean 17.10?
>
> > (because some things are still
> > broken for me in 18.04)
>
> You are apparently attempting to run an unfinished pre-release OS. Don't.
>
> > and ran chrome on one of the profiles that I had
> > used from 18.04, it said the profile was broken because it had been used
> by
> > a newer version of chrome.
>
> Don't do that, either.
>
> >  So the safe thing to do it copy the user-data-dir
> > rather than symlink, but neither symlinking nor copying user-data-dir
> works,
> > so the question of copy vs symlink is moot.
>
> No, the safe thing to do is _not_ to try to second-guess Google's data
> storage and muck around with it.
>
> The safe thing to do is leave Google's storage well alone and use the
> sync tools that Google has given you to resolve your issue.
>
> *Because...*
>
> > Somewhere outside of
> > .config/google-chrome and user-data-dir profile directories there is some
> > configuration info that has passwords or enables the passwords to work
> and
> > that's the configuration info that I'm looking for.
>
> And that is *why* what you're trying to do is a bad idea.
>

It's not a bad idea to try to backup and restore application configuration
data. If my hard drive crashed and I didn't want to copy every bit of cruft
from my backup, I'd have the same question. Please stop telling me what I
want to do is a bad idea... if you don't know how to do something that is
obviously possible and the rational thing to do in some circumstances, just
don't respond.
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