{"id":631,"date":"2016-05-18T11:56:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T00:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&p=631"},"modified":"2022-12-02T11:49:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T00:49:51","slug":"copy-google-chrome-profile-new-user-profile-windows","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/copy-google-chrome-profile-new-user-profile-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Copy the Google Chrome Profile to A New User Profile in Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before copying Google\u00a0Profile Data please ensure that Google Chrome\u00a0is closed<\/strong><\/p>\n

To copy all Google Chrome\u00a0profile information across from one User in Windows to another user:<\/p>\n

Step 1<\/h3>\n

Reveal Hidden Files and Folders<\/a> (opens in new tab)<\/p>\n

Step 2<\/h3>\n

Open Windows Explorer<\/p>\n

Step 3<\/h3>\n

Browse to the Google Chrome\u00a0Profile Folder of the old<\/strong> user. \u00a0The path\u00a0is:<\/p>\n

C:\\Users\\<Windows login\/user name><\/i>\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\Default<\/p>\n

Where\u00a0<Windows login\/user name><\/strong><\/i> is the old username<\/p>\n

Step 4 – Copy all the files in the profile folder<\/h3>\n

Press CTRL + A<\/strong> and then CTRL + C<\/strong><\/p>\n

Step 5<\/h3>\n

Browse to the Google Chrome\u00a0Profile Folder of the new<\/strong>\u00a0user. \u00a0The path\u00a0is:<\/p>\n

C:\\Users\\<Windows login\/user name><\/i>\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\Default<\/p>\n

Where\u00a0<Windows login\/user name><\/strong><\/i> is the new\u00a0username<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Google<\/a><\/p>\n

Step 6<\/h3>\n

Press CTRL + V<\/strong> and accept any messages asking to override \/ merge<\/p>\n

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Before copying Google\u00a0Profile Data please ensure that Google Chrome\u00a0is closed To copy all Google Chrome\u00a0profile information across from one User in Windows to another user: Step 1 Reveal Hidden Files and Folders (opens in new tab) Step 2 Open Windows Explorer Step 3 Browse to the Google Chrome\u00a0Profile Folder of the old user. \u00a0The path\u00a0is: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[452,36],"article-tag":[507,508],"class_list":["post-631","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-windows-10","article-category-windows-8","article-tag-copy-google-chrome-profile-folder-to-new-user","article-tag-move-google-chrome-profile-new-user-windows"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":50,"sum_votes":125},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}