Where Does Google Chrome Store User History, Profile & Bookmarks? I have been using and enjoying Google Chrome for the past couple of days. So as I am setting up my new computer, I am installing Chrome there as well. While doing this, I would like to bring over my saved browsing history and bookmarks so that I don’t have to build it from scratch on the new machine. The only problem is that while Chrome makes it very easy to import existing settings from Firefox, it does not display any visible option to export current settings. After a bit of digging, I found the location where Chrome stored user data: On XP – C: \Documents and Settings\< User Name> \Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data. On Vista – C: \Users\< User Name> \App. Data\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data. The User Data folder contains three files: Local State, Safe Browsing and Safe Browsing Filter, along with a folder called Default. Default in turn contains your browser cache, plugin data, and all of your cookies and history data. To move my profile over to my new computer, I copied all of the files and folders under User Data on my XP machine, and moved them into the User Data on my new Vista machine (all of the files were nearly 1. When I next started Chrome on my Vista machine, it was identical to the app on my XP machine, down to most popular sites, history and cookies. I even started writing this post on my XP machine, and then continued it on my Vista machine without having to log in again into my Word. Press admin. In the end this was pretty easy to do. Though the ease of profile transfer could in turn make it easy for someone to steal someone else’s identity – after all, the cookies file (presumably a sqllite db or something similar) was only 2. KB, and merely dropping it in the new User Data allowed a complete transfer of identity (perhaps a good security feature would be to allow the \User Data\Default\Cookies file to work only on the originally installed instance). ![]() User Account Control (UAC) is a technology and security infrastructure introduced with Microsoft's Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 operating systems, with a.![]() ![]() ![]() The user data directory contains data specific to a given user. Some examples of this type of data are: history, bookmarks, and cookies. How to seamlessly move (or redirect) your entire Windows user profile to a different drive (or location) using NTFS junction points instead of other, less elegant.
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