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How do you create separate shortcuts for different profiles?
- Jan 20, 2020
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"
Eric_MS If I try this, it just creates a new profile named "Profile 1" for me, even though I replaced it with "Work" which is an existing profile in Edge. How can I make it open an existing profile I have in Edge Chromium?
Koen Zomers edge://version/ This page gives you the profile directory path for the current profile you are using.