Comments on: Where Does Google Chrome Store User History, Profile & Bookmarks?

By: IVA

IVA — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:06:29 +0000

Does Chrome store images like “temporary internet files”. Once you reset your system then where can we locate previously browsed images?

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:12:53 +0000

Hi John

I will keep looking for a solution to this, when I get time.

I do what you do; keep critical data off the OS drive, to allow re-installs of the OS without the worry of losing data.

I hope we can do this with Chrome. Its a great browser and I am ‘converted’ to using Google Apps.

Cheers

Gary

By: John Mitechell

John Mitechell — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:02:50 +0000

Thanks Gary,

Let’s keep in touch. If either of us finds a way, let’s tell on another.

I find ‘Chrome’ to be very fast and efficient for most of my client needs. I store all data (Desktop, Favorites, Firefox Profiles, Documents, Music, Pictures, Downloads, etc.) on the D: drive of a clients machine. This allows me to restore a ‘ghost’ image back to C: drive with out fear of losing any client data. It’s worked flawless for me for years.

I think you can see my dilema.. I need to get the Chrome Profile over to D: as well.

I hope we figure it out sometime soon. I’m telling all my clients that if they really want to save their bookmarks to use Firefox or IE. Just use Chrome for casual browsing.

Thanks again and Cheers Mate.

John Mitchell
Galaxy Desserts IT Manager
jmitchell@galaxydesserts.com

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By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:10:53 +0000

Hi John

No, I haven’t found a way of moving the Chrome profile onto a share. I can’t seem to get Chrome to hold settings in the cloud either, which is supposed to be possible.

I wish I could do one or the other because I use Chrome from lots of different machines and places.

By: John Mitchell

John Mitchell — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:16:39 +0000

GARY, did you find your answer on how to move the Chrome user data to another drive. I need to find how to move the user profile much like in Firefox using the ‘Firefox.exe -userprofile’ command.

Anyone??

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:12:09 +0000

Gary, I don’t know the answer to your question and can only point you to Google’s Help page for Chrome.

http://www.google.com/support/chrome/

HTH. If it’s redundant then apologies.

By: koushik

koushik — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:34:12 +0000

thanks man,it is really helpfull.

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:39:30 +0000

Can Chrome be told that the ‘User Data’ directory should be stored onto a shared drive, such as a NAS or Server driver?

TIA

Gary

By: Henky

Henky — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:07:53 +0000

This should be verry usefull, only problem is I don’t have a directory called application data or local settings and I am using XP :S.

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:15:16 +0000

Can the location of where Chrome stores Bookmarks be changed to a server share?

This is what I do with Firefox and Thunderbird, by using the -profilemanager switch.

If possible I would rather not store Bookmarks or other info, like passwords, in the Cloud and I don’t want to leave this stuff on client PCs.