MAP OF BRAVE BROWSER USER PROFILES’ DATA LOCATIONS ON OLD PC
Upon the original installation and setup of Brave Browser (“BB”) on
a) your Old PC ← oldpc
b) for Windows User 01 ← windowsuser01
You had 2 Brave Browser user Profiles:
FIRST:
c) the initial BB user Profile named “Profile 1” ← data stored in folder named Default at:
d) C:\Users\windowsuser01\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default
SECOND
e) the 1st additional BB user Profile named “Profile 2” ← data stored in folder named Profile 1 at:
f) C:\Users\windowsuser01\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Profile 1
Thereafter, you had to set up 1 additional Windows user on the Old PC:
g) Windows User 02 ← windowsuser02
h) on your Old PC ← oldpc
And, the new Windows user windowsuser02 would have:
i) an initial BB user Profile named Profile 1 ← data stored in folder named Default at:
j) C:\Users\windowsuser02\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default
But now, in your Original Post (“OP”) above, you wrote a bit of a puzzle for me:
“When I had to setup a new windows user on my old PC, which I lost later, somehow the 2nd profile synced with the other saved sites of the 2nd profile that I had as intended.”
That sounds like, at this point in your establishment of things, you had 2 Brave Browser user Profiles named Profile 2 ← meaning that you had created 1 additional BB user Profile for each Windows user:
k) BB user Profile named Profile 2 for windowsuser01 on oldpc ← data in folder named Profile 1 at: C:\Users\windowsuser01\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Profile 1
l) BB user Profile named Profile 2 for windowsuser02 on oldpc ← data in folder named Profile 1 at: C:\Users\windowsuser02\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Profile 1
Is that correct?
IF you are lost, you need to refer back to my earlier reply: