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FireFox: Change Profile Directory

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FireFox: Change Profile Directory

1. Locate the current profile location.

Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Folder

2. Start the Profile Manager.

ThunderBird -P
FireFox -P

Edit profiles.ini

Firefox: %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox
Thunderbird: %APPDATA%\Thunderbird
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Re: FireFox: Change Profile Directory

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FireFox : Change Profile Directory

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"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -no-remote  -profile "D:\data\Tong3"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -no-remote  -P "My Profile" 
Opening a new instance of your Mozilla application with another profile

When Firefox is running and you try to open another Firefox process, a new window is opened instead, in the already running process. You can use the -no-remote command line option to start a new Firefox process that is invisible to the first process. By using -no-remote along with the -P option to select a different profile, you can open multiple instances of Firefox at the same time, using separate profiles. Selecting a different profile from the one used in the first process is necessary because profiles are "locked" when in use.

Important: Never use -no-remote to start the "default" profile (the one that is set to open without asking when you launch Firefox). That's because when you launch Firefox, for example, by clicking a link in your mail program, you will get a "Firefox is already running but is not responding" message if the default profile is already in use. The solution is to always start the default profile normally and launch all others with -no-remote. Then it will work.
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Re: FireFox: Move Profile Location

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Chrome : Check User Data Dir

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chrome://version
Chrome : Default User Data Dir

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"C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data"
"%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data"
Chrome : Set Default User Data Dir

Method A
Don't use --user-data-dir for the default user data dir . It may not open link from the other software.

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robocopy /e /copyall /move "C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data" "D:\data\Chrome"
mklink /d "C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data" "D:\data\Chrome"
Method B
Any --user-data-dir will not work anymore.

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reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome" /v UserDataDir /t REG_SZ /d "D:\data\Chrome" /f

Chrome : Custom User Data Dir

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"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --user-data-dir="D:\data\Chrome.2"
Chrome : Choose Profile Dir

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"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --profile-directory="User.2"
Examples

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D:\data\Chrome\Default
D:\data\Chrome\User.2
D:\data\Chrome\User.3
D:\data\Chrome.2\Default
D:\data\Chrome.2\User.2
D:\data\Chrome.2\User.3

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --profile-directory="Default"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --profile-directory="User.2"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --profile-directory="User.3"

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --user-data-dir="D:\data\Chrome.2" --profile-directory="Default"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --user-data-dir="D:\data\Chrome.2" --profile-directory="User.2" 
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --user-data-dir="D:\data\Chrome.2" --profile-directory="User.3"
You can edit profile lists in "D:\data\Chrome\Local State".

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Re: FireFox: Change Profile Directory

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Chrome : How to move any profile to Default

1. Exit Chrome.
2. Backup the source profile folder. E.g. "D:\data\Chrome\Profile 2".
3. Copy the source profile folder to the Default folder. E.g. "D:\data\Chrome\Default".
4. Access Default profile by:

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"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --profile-directory="Default"
In case of custom folders :

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"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --user-data-dir="D:\data\Chrome.2" --profile-directory="Default"
5. Exit Chrome.
6. Now you can delete the source profile.
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