I try to restore some profile from my old ssd i was using in my previous PC. I get my file Profile x from D:…AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser and try to simply paste it in my C:…AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser expecting brave will detect a new profile but it’s not working. Any su…

I’ve asked essentially the same question in [image] How to restore deleted profiles in Windows 10? Not realizing that a Brave “profile” contains bookmarks, extension, saved counts, passwords, and God knows what else, I deleted mine as part of troubleshooting suggested for…

Hello, I started replying to @pghbob yesterday, but got pulled away. So I’ll reply to both of you here. This week, I transferred all my Brave settings and profiles to a brand new laptop. I experienced a few challenges during the process, but eventually got everything moved. Even all the open tabs …

I have done some more digging on this and on my machine. I found the file User_Data\Local State and opened it up in Notepad. You’ll probably see it as a bunch of jibberish, but as a programmer, I realized right away that it was a JSON file. So I opened it in Visual Studio and found it contains a …

Thanks for this - looks like another piece/es of the puzzle. It seems to me there should be an automatic backup created when you update a profile, with a user-definable number to keep. It shouldn’t be any harder to restore than copying files/folders from the backup to the active. I used to find r…

[image] pghbob: It seems to me there should be an automatic backup created when you update a profile, with a user-definable number to keep. It shouldn’t be any harder to restore than copying files/folders from the backup to the active. Well… The profile contains all sorts of stuff. Any ope…

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pghbob April 5, 2023, 6:36pm 2

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