Chome – How to change user-information directory

September 12, 2018 372 Views

As yous may have known Chrome stores user information in a default directory. You lot can find this location easily by typing into address bar chrome://version, you'll get event like below screenshot:

Its path on Windows is "C:\Users\[account]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data", in this instance, mine is "C:\Users\Ben\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Information", and Default is directory of Default profile.

Let'south say you want to assign user information directory into another location, even dissimilar drive Volume, I'll cull "D:\AppData\Chrome" as an example.

Chrome back up an option variable on command line to assign user data directory on startup, which is –user-data-dir. Open the command line, go to Chrome Executable Path "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application"; type in:

chrome.exe –user-data-dir="D:\AppData\Chrome"

I'll have another Chrome instance with new user information directory, I can check it past typing chrome://version as above:

Y'all tin can notice that Default contour directory is also created.

That's groovy, the next step you tin think of is creating a shortcut to Chrome with this option, and then that you tin just click on it to open. That's right, I now can create a shortcut with Target path equally:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Awarding\chrome.exe" –user-data-dir="D:\AppData\Chrome"

But what if you desire to make this as a default behavior, so that whenever you click on whatsoever hyperlink, Chrome volition exist opened with this user information dir?

We can do this past creating a symbolic link with path as the default user data dir to your new dir. Steps are beneath:

Shut all Chrome windows to release lock on folder User Data.
Go to "C:\Users\[account]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome".
Delete User Data directory, you tin can copy to somewhere every bit a fill-in.
Open Command Prompt(Run as Administrator), become to "C:\Users\[account]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome" create a symbolic link "User Information" to "D:\AppData\Chrome", as below screenshot: