How can I Transfer Google Chrome's Data and Settings to another Google Account?
[EDIT] According to Aminah Nuraini (in comments) the following is no longer the case.
I'm just going to post this here for greater visibility (as I found it very useful) for future people who come across it, credit goes to user234593:
Go to the menu and at the top under signed in as [email protected] click disconnect then click sign in and sign in as a different account.
When you click disconnect it warns you that all your data will stay on the computer (which is exactly what you want) and when you sign in with the new account the things get synced to that account
An old question but the current answer is out of date and I stumbled across this on my quest today (would simply comment this if I had the available rep).
Now the process is:
- go to Menu (the 3 line/hamburger sybol in the top right) and click 'settings'
- Select the 'disconnect' button which is one of the first buttons at the top of the main section of the settings page you just opened. Confirm you want to leave your data on the PC (do NOT select to clear bookmarks/history etc..)
- Close settings tab and sign-in using the man icon in the title bar. This will prompt you that another user was previously signed in on this machine and you can either clear their data, or you can 'sign in anyway' and merge the data. The latter is of course the one we want here.
Hey presto - job complete!
Copy the user data (find it at ~/.config/google-chrome on Linux) then make a new user profile from the settings and delete the other one. Copy back the data and wait for it to sync.