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I have two os's installed. My main and another one that is a fresh install. The main os's HD got corrupted but most of the files are intact(mainly boot stuff). I am trying to restore my google chrome profile.

I have copied the google chrome dir \Users\%User%\App Data\Local\Google to the working OS's drive and it didn't work. For some reason chrome was installed in program files. I then copied everything over to program files.

When chrome starts it loads up the bookmarks and passwords/login info it seems but no extensions or settings.

How can I get it to use the extensions I had and everything else. I haven't sync'ed to the cloud in a while so I'm trying to get the most recent changes.

Basically I think I have access to all the chrome data off the old hard drive so the problem is just getting chrome to use it on the new drive. Everywhere I've read says that all the data is under the Google dir but chrome doesn't seem to use it correctly.

Sathyajith Bhat
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You had those two OS installed to begin with, right? As with the vast majority of people, I'm betting those two OS are not the same. Two different versions of Windows, I'm guessing.

Then it's reasonable to think that depending on the version, Chrome doesn't generate exactly the same profile files and content, or changes the location of a few files. Or it could be that some key files have gone missing or corrupted in the hard drive's failure. In both cases, IF the issue is resolvable, it sounds like you'd spend on the solution twice the time you'd have spent on reinstalling your newer things after a cloud sync. Besides, even in a perfectly normal situation, it seems that transferring Chrome settings with just files doesn't work 100 %. It might be a feature, so that people can't just access all of your passwords by copying a few files.

If you have the space, you could use one of those data recuperation programs to clone the whole broken drive to a partition, and then try those files. But this sounds like an elephant to kill an ant.

Ariane
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