How to backup chrome session manager extension on linux and windows?

Question

I've found google chrome's profile in the file directory's of both linux and windows, but I can't find session manager amongst the extensions (and have my doubts that loading up the profile will work as intended).

Answer 1

Session Manager in chrome is keep in the Singleton Cookie which is in ~/.config/google-chrome/.... Of note (especially if a open session (foreground OR background) is active, You will get a Operation Not Permitted this is primarily because the `Token `` is more or less hashed to that session and machine the configs from it however transfer.

To backup or migrate your full settings all that is needed is to:

Linux:

cp -r ~/.config/google-chrome/* /${some mountpoint} ## for ex. a usb mountpoint or somewhere else you need /desire it for backup / version control

ex.

sudo mount /dev/sdb  /media
sudo cp -r ~/.config/google-chrome/* /media

MAC:

cp -r ~USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/User Data/Default/Preferences/{some mountpoint}

ex.

 sudo mount /dev/disk1   /Volumes/$USERNAME/foo
 sudo cp -r ~USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/User Data/Default/Preferences  /Volumes/$USERNAME/foo

Windows:

cp -r C:\Documents and Settings*UserName*\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default /{some mountpoint}

ex.

SELECT DISK 1

XCOPY /E C:\Documents and Settings*UserName*\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default /DISK1/foo