Google Chrome appdata files - best location

[timbo343]

Something that has bugged me whilst users are using Chrome is the location of the app data folders and favourites. This is only affecting staff accounts.

 

We have set tge Google AppData to the user's home directory but my concern is the size of the folders that it can create - ive seen some that are near 2gb and then we have to backup the data.

 

What do others do? We have mandatory profiles for the majority of staff and roaming for those that use MS Outlook Client (our office staff).

 

Is there a way to only map bookmarks to the userarea rather than all the google settings.

 

Thanks

[DGardiner]

Something that has bugged me whilst users are using Chrome is the location of the app data folders and favourites. This is only affecting staff accounts.

 

We have set tge Google AppData to the user's home directory but my concern is the size of the folders that it can create - ive seen some that are near 2gb and then we have to backup the data.

 

What do others do? We have mandatory profiles for the majority of staff and roaming for those that use MS Outlook Client (our office staff).

 

Is there a way to only map bookmarks to the userarea rather than all the google settings.

 

Thanks

If i remember right theres 2 paths you can set

 

one contains the users login/session/cookies/etc data - i redirect this to the users home drive/profile - ${profile}\Google\Google Chrome

 

one contains the cache/bigstuff - i redirect this to local app data so it doesnt roam - ${local_app_data}\Google\Google Chrome\Cache

 

heres the path list incase its of use https://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3/user-data-directory-variables

[timbo343]

Thanks for this, i presume that in Group Policy the settings that need to be changed are:

 

Set User Data Directory - i'm thinking this is the Cache / big stuff?

Set the Roaming profile directory - i'm thinking this is the smaller stuff such as login/session/cookies and favourites?

 

I guess Set User Data Directory would need to be ${local_app_data}\Google\Google Chrome\Cache and Set the Roaming profile directory would need to be ${profile}\Google\Google Chrome.

[DGardiner]

Thanks for this, i presume that in Group Policy the settings that need to be changed are:

 

Set User Data Directory - i'm thinking this is the Cache / big stuff?

Set the Roaming profile directory - i'm thinking this is the smaller stuff such as login/session/cookies and favourites?

 

I guess Set User Data Directory would need to be ${local_app_data}\Google\Google Chrome\Cache and Set the Roaming profile directory would need to be ${profile}\Google\Google Chrome.

 

Should work! do some testing though, i cant remember if this allows the use of chrome at multiple computers at the same time or not - if that matters for you

[timbo343]

Im not fussed about the multiple computers issue but i've been trying:

 

Set User Data Directory

${profile}\Google Chrome - Doesn't Work - No folder created

${documents}\Google Chrome - Works folder created

 

Set the Roaming profile

${profile}\Google Chorme Roaming - Doesn't Work - No folder created

U:\Google Chorme Roaming - Doesn't Work - No folder created

${documents}\Google Chrome Roaming - Doesn't Work - No folder created

 

It would seem "bookmarks" are saved in ${profile}\Google Chrome\Default\Bookmarks.file (or ${documents}\Google Chrome) which is configured within the Set User Data Directory. How on earth do we stop this directory getting to damm big!

Edited September 10, 2019 by timbo343

[Arthur]

Im not fussed about the multiple computers issue but i've been trying:

Have you enabled the following GPO?

 

Enable the creation of roaming copies for Google Chrome profile data

 

Edit. I have Set the user data directory and Set the roaming profile directory set to Not configured since I use UE-V to copy the profile.pb(s) to the user's home directory.

Edited September 10, 2019 by Arthur

[timbo343]

Have you enabled the following GPO?

 

Enable the creation of roaming copies for Google Chrome profile data

 

I have Set the user data directory set to Not configured so that Chrome just uses its default folder.

 

Yup, i have Enable the creation of roaming copies for Google Chrome profile data yet nothing gets created in the user's home directory.