Where is chromium's profile?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Mon Mar 22 17:49:08 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 17:47 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 22 March 2010 16:58:51 Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> > On 03/22/2010 01:51 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Monday 22 March 2010 16:33:25 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > >> On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 16:25 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > >>> Does anyone know where chromium stores your profile?  After a bad crash
> > >>> I lost all my tabs, and every time I start it now it says that it
> > >>> can't read my profile.  It tells me to check that it exists and that I
> > >>> have rw access to it - but so far I haven't found it.
> > >> 
> > >> Possibly under ~/.config/chromium
> > > 
> > > Sounds reasonable :-) - I haven't got used to looking under ~/.config.
> > > However, I've no idea what I'm looking for.  There are quite a lot of
> > > files there, and the permissions on all of them look reasonable, but if
> > > one is missing I wouldn't know.
> > > 
> > > Then again, some have rw only on owner, with no access at all for group
> > > or world - I wonder if mysql needs r access at least?
> > 
> > Why would mysql need access to chromium files?
> > 
> My mistake - not mysql, but SQLite3, which the History Index files seem to be 
> using.  I've just noticed that there is one file called History-journal, which 
> is said to be type unknown.  Is that correct?

Same here. Actually I use Chrome, but the file is also present:

$ file .config/google-chrome/Default/History-journal
.config/google-chrome/Default/History-journal: data

poc



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