copying all chrome config data to different user

[David L]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 12:51 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 23 March 2018 at 01:33, David L <david4lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > It's not a bad idea to try to backup and restore application
> configuration
> > data. If my hard drive crashed and I didn't want to copy every bit of
> cruft
> > from my backup, I'd have the same question. Please stop telling me what I
> > want to do is a bad idea... if you don't know how to do something that is
> > obviously possible and the rational thing to do in some circumstances,
> just
> > don't respond.
>
> I *am* telling you how to do it. You just don't like the method. It
> appears you think that you have a better idea (it isn't) which you
> can't get working (it won't) and you want help implementing your bad
> idea, not fixing your actual problem.
>
> Hint: reconsider.
>

Ok. Answer this question then. I have a tape backup of my home directory.
My 1TB mechanical hard drive failed and I've replaced it with a 500GB solid
state drive. I need to extract a subset of my tape backup to my new 500GB
drive and get my chrome profiles working. How do I do it?

I predict that your answer will be the following:

1) Buy a new 1TB hard drive.
2) Extract 1TB of data from your tape backup to your new 1TB hard drive
3) Boot up, log in, and open each of your 100 chrome profiles via the GUI
4) Export passwords from each of the 100 chrome profiles via GUI to the
cloud or a local set of files
5) Shut down
6) Install new 500GB solid state drive
7) Boot up, log in, and open each of your 100 chrome profiles via the GUI
8) Import passwords for each of the 100 chrome profiles via GUI from the
cloud or thumb drive, etc.


Here's the answer I'm looking for:

1) Extract /home/david/chrome-user-data-dir*
/home/david/.config/google-chrome and
/home/david/the_other_directories_I_need

The latter answer will take 30 seconds, the former will take many hours and
require a new drive that I don't really need.
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