I’ve tried copying the entire “User Data” folder in …\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\User Data but that’s not working. Meaning the “User Data” folder on the new pc is completely removed and replaced with the “User Data” folder from the old pc. Yet when I open the new Brave inst…

[image] Revived: \AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\User Data One too many User Data. It should just be one. I’m guessing you put the new User Data inside the User Data folder instead of replacing it. The natural path would be something like: C:\Users\saoir\AppData\Local\Br…

Hey thanks for the reply and for pointing out my (now) obvious oversight with the location. So I replaced the default User Data folder with the one from my other computer and it still didn’t work. The only thing that seemingly transferred are bookmarks. But the open tabs, extensions, browsing data/…

[image] Revived: Do you have a suggestion? Not necessarily. I know some of those things may not move over. Like I don’t think it would transfer over any open tabs, but maybe I’m wrong. I haven’t really ever done anything this way as I just preferred to sync devices. Manual transfer of files/f…

Thanks for tagging @Mattches It just seems if a drive can be cloned, I’m hoping there’s also a way to do so for individual apps.

Interesting that it didn’t carry over. I just tested this on my Windows machine and was able to copy my user data folder, uninstall Brave, reinstall and then replace the new user data folder with the old one. I got history, bookmarks and settings transferred over and even some autofill data which is…

[image] Saoiray: That issue aside, passwords wouldn’t move over this way Nothing moved for me. I lost everything basically. I used teracopy to copy C:\Users[User]\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser to another drive. After reinstalling computer, I installed the same Brave Browser ve…

Follow the method correctly and it will work https://www.reddit.com/r/windows8/comments/150z3o1/getting_utorrent_stats_brave_stats_history/

How exactly do I move an entire Brave install to new pc? (open tabs, extensions, EVERYTHING)

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