accidentally activated Google Chrome profile, now everthing from default profile is lost

[jazzy445]

Hello all,
i’m crying - i’ve never used the chrome profiles, just the default user/profile since years. Today i accidentally clicked on that Chrome popup asking to activate (or sync?) my chrome profile with my google account. Nothing immediately happend, but after installing other software, i had to reboot my PC (Win10). After the restart, i opened Chrome, only to find it in a fully reset state. No bookmarks, no addons, no recent tabs. It has me logged in to my previously chosen google account though…isn’t that great ! I’ve been googling for hours now to find a way to restore everything, but without any real luck. In the appdata/local/chrome directory, I can see that the “default” folder is still there, probably containing all the stuff of the state from hours ago, including a session buddy database. I could try now bit by bit to restore everything, but since nothing got really deleted, i’m sure there must be a way to make chrome start from this default profile folder again ? I tried removing the new unwanted profile folder (“profile 1”), but upon starting chrome, it won’t use the old default, but instead creates a new “profile 1” folder again. I cant believe this…is there any way to do it ? I even tried system restore to a backup point from a week ago, but it didn’t bring back chromes old state either. Any ideas ? I may lose months of research in open tabs*, help is so much appredicated here, thanks !

*i installed session buddy just for such case, but it’s of no use when the addon itsself is removed (

[Malnutrition]

https://shadowexplorer.com/downloads.html

Sorry for the lack of details. I just went back out to the country, I can supply you with instructions tomorrow if you are unable to use the tool.

This tool should be able to help you …

[jazzy445]

“This tool should be able to help you …”

Thank you, but i wouldn’t know how ? Seems to be a file recovery tool, but i didn’t delete anything. I’m trying to make Chrome start from my old, default profile folder again. It’s all still there.

[Malnutrition]

https://www.howtogeek.com/207614/everything-you-need-to-know-about-google-chromes-profile-switcher/

[jazzy445]

Problem solved myself…for anyone running into this (i read dozens of posts to the same problem over the net without any solution):
Rather accidentally again i logged in (e.g. synced chrome) with the google account i connected it with accidentally at first. Et voila - this brought back everything. It seems, in the moment when i synced to the google account the first time, chrome converted the previous “default” profile into that current google account profile. So you only have to login/sync with that google account again and all is fine. Since i have several accounts, i couldn’t remember which one it was, and also wouldn’t have thought that it works that way. This is no where documented, at least i couldn’t find it. Even google support forums suggested to rebuild everything. Well, no need at all ! Hope this helps.

[PeterOz]

Thanks for posting the answer