If you are a Chrome user and would like to clone your settings (like bookmarks, extensions, cookies etc.) from Machine X to Machine Y, here is a tip for you.
- Close the browser in both the machines
- Backup C:\Documents and Settings\your_user_id\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data to C:\Documents and Settings\your_user_id\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data_Backup in Machine Y
- Copy C:\Documents and Settings\your_user_id\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data from Machine X to C:\Documents and Settings\your_user_id\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data in Machine Y
- Boom… Open chrome in Machine Y & make sure you have everything that you had in Machine X.
FYI – I have tested this in Windows XP Chrome Dev Channel 5.0 versions.
Update: I have tried this in Ubuntu machines and also between Windows XP & Ubuntu 9.10 and it worked fine. Replace the above folders with this one for Linux machines – /home/your_user_id/.config/google-chrome/Default
Right there I see some opportunity for developing a Chrome extension. If I get sometime and Google or anyone else didn’t come up with something for this, I might crack up some extension to do this automatically.
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