I am tasked on creating a new chrome profile with a specific for all employees of the company, and the task proves allot more difficult than one would expect it to be.
I started scouting the web and came across allot of guides that basically said the same thing, How to create a Chrome profile programmatically?
So I replicated the script to my own needs (later on, I will change the script from copying another profile on the pc, to copying a profile from a shared drive)
## moving to the chrome directory
cd "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data"
## copying the new profile
mkdir "Profile 2" && copy "Profile 1"
## moving to chrome installation directory
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application"
## Reseting and launching new profile
chrome.exe --user-data-dir="%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\User Data\NewUser" -first-run
My findings, were, that the profile is successfully created, but when I open Chrome from that profile, other profiles seem to be missing, and when I open chrome normally, I don't see the new profile, as if it was a brand new installation of Chrome.
This is what I see when I open chrome normally (TEST being Profile 1, test3 being Profile 3 on the chrome local appdata folder) Profile list when Chrome is opened normally
And this is what I see when I open the new profile in Chrome (using the last line in the script) (this is Profile 2 in the chrome directory) Profile list when I open the new profile See how the 'other people' section is missing the other profiles
