Google Chrome - Roaming User Data (Bookmarks etc)

[enjay]

Stumbled across this while doing something else - https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7349337?hl=en&ref_topic=9023257 Does it help?

[AJWhite1970]

Been playing with this all day and the magic answer does appear to be as others have said above in that inside the Chrome GPO set the following:-

 

Enable to creation of roaming copies for Google Chrome profile data = ENABLED

Set user data directory = ENABLED (my path is r:\chrome\User Data)

Set the roaming profile directory = ENABLED (but leave the path blank)

 

These settings are working for me, the profile.pb is now being written to C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default whereas the cache and the user settings etc roam nicely from r:\chrome

 

I think it was the redirecting the profile.pb to a network drive and that being locked which was causing all my problems. So far, no Chrome complaints today

[Arthur]

1. Enable to creation of roaming copies for Google Chrome profile data = ENABLED
   
2. Set user data directory = ENABLED (my path is r:\chrome\User Data)
   
3. Set the roaming profile directory = ENABLED (but leave the path blank)
   

FWIW, with local profiles and UE-V you only need to enable the first policy.

 

the profile.pb is now being written to C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default whereas the cache and the user settings etc roam nicely from r:\chrome

Won't having Chrome's cache on the R:\ drive gradually fill up your file server (and be slower compared to the local drive)?