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tomscharbach
Bronze Contributor
Aug 20, 2019

Beta Channel is now open

I see that the https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/.  Good news.  We have made it through the earliest stages of development now, and we can look forward to release in the next few months, pos...
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florsignol
Copper Contributor
Aug 20, 2019
Is there a way to import tabs/history/settings from Edge dev or Edge canary into Edge Beta channel? Only import options right now are for Edge browser.
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CodeDJ
Iron Contributor
Aug 21, 2019

florsignol,  LRCROW I was able to copy those over by copying my profile folder from Dev to Beta. So far it seems to be working fine with full access to my history from Dev. I had to manually update my pinned sites, as they are linked to Dev folder. Had to edit the links and change "Dev" to "Beta".

 

Assuming you are using the Default profile:

1. Close both Edge Dev and Edge Beta.

2. Under "C:\Users\{userfolder}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge Beta\User Data\" backup the Default folder.

3. Under "C:\Users\{userfolder}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge Beta\User Data\" delete the Default folder.

4. Under "C:\Users\{userfolder}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge Dev\User Data\" copy the Default folder to "C:\Users\{userfolder}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge Beta\User Data\".

5. Launch Edge Beta. You should have access to all your history.

 

Update: There is a "Edge Profile.png/ico" file in there that is used for the Taskbar icon. Copying the entire folder resulted in the Dev icon showing for Beta Edge. I guess there may be other things like this that is unknown. So far other than the icon, haven't seen any other issue. An alternative is to just copy History* files.

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