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USMA56795
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Aug 22, 2019
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How do you create separate shortcuts for different profiles?

The default shortcut has this as a Target:   "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge Dev\Application\msedge.exe" --profile-directory="Default"  I think if I substitute other values for the profile-...
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    AndyBrunner
    Jan 20, 2020

    AllanRoss 

     

    if I pin Edge to the taskbar I get a shortcut with this command

     

    "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge Beta\Application\msedge.exe" --profile-directory="Profile 1"

     

    open the directory
    C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge Beta\User Data\

    and check if there are Profile folders called like

    • Profile 0
    • Profile 1
    • etc....

    if you need to identify them:

    inside these directories you have a file called Preferences

    open it with a text editor (i.e. notepad.exe) copy everything into https://jsonbeautifier.org/ click Format/Beautify and then open the profile tree

    there you find the name of the Profile associated to your profile folder "Profile x"

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AllanRoss
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Jan 16, 2020

I renamed my profiles to "WORK" and "HOME" - crazy naming convention, I know. Now trying to create a shortcut with --profile-directory and everything I try just creates a new profile. 

--profile-directory ="profile 1" [fail]

--profile-directory ="Profile 1" [fail]

--profile-directory ="profile 2" [fail]

--profile-directory ="profile 3" [fail]

--profile-directory ="work" [fail]

--profile-directory ="WORK" [fail]

--profile-directory ="home" [fail]

 

A little documentation would be good. How does using the profile name not work?

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AndyBrunner
Copper Contributor
Jan 20, 2020

AllanRoss 

 

if I pin Edge to the taskbar I get a shortcut with this command

 

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge Beta\Application\msedge.exe" --profile-directory="Profile 1"

 

open the directory
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge Beta\User Data\

and check if there are Profile folders called like

  • Profile 0
  • Profile 1
  • etc....

if you need to identify them:

inside these directories you have a file called Preferences

open it with a text editor (i.e. notepad.exe) copy everything into https://jsonbeautifier.org/ click Format/Beautify and then open the profile tree

there you find the name of the Profile associated to your profile folder "Profile x"

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