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pneenkoalabear
Iron Contributor
Oct 21, 2019

User and session restore - Edge Canary

I just updated Edge Canary today and things are messed up. There was a window telling me that Edge signed me in even though Windows has not been signed into with a Microsoft account. Now the profile ...
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HotCakeX
MVP
Oct 21, 2019

Hi,
a screenshot of the problem here would also help 🙂
also just to make sure, you've never signed into Edge insider before on your computer (for cloud sync)?

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cormerod
Copper Contributor
Oct 21, 2019

HotCakeX I have had the same problem...

1. I had 2 profiles "Home" and "Work"
2. "Home" was signed in and syncing with my personal microsoft account
3. Upon installing todays update I was greeted with the similar message that my account was now linked with my Work AD account and syncing was disabled by my administrator.

4. My former "Home" profile was now renamed "Work" and seemingly permanently linked to the account used to login to the computer. (I can't see a way to unlink this)

5. My former "Work" profile seems untouched

6. Creating a new profile to sync it with my personal microsoft account requires adding that account to windows hello. Kind of annoying, but not the end of the world. 

 

The problem I'm left with is somehow getting my work bookmarks back into what seems to be required to be my work profile now.

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    HotCakeX
    MVP
    Oct 21, 2019
    Hi,
    #3 is strange, accounts getting merged/linked. the whole point of having separate profiles is to have separate and different content on each of them, merging and linking them doesn't make sense, must be a bug?
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      cormerod
      Copper Contributor
      Oct 21, 2019

      HotCakeX yeah obviously a bug.

       

      After updating my home PC which went ok, I think what's happened is they take the original "Default" profile and link it to your windows login account (irrevocably, and not deletable - which is a pain) - they should have checked it wasn't already a synced profile though.

       

      And then they've tweaked the way you can sync a secondary profile with a microsoft account to require the windows hello link. 

       

      Nothing too major, just a pain to fix it up because I need to move all my bookmarks because the default profile is not deleteable anymore.

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        HotCakeX
        MVP
        Oct 22, 2019
        Windows Hello shouldn't be a problem since it gives you multiple options, like picture password, face detection, finger print, Pin etc. I only use the PIN (and sometimes picture password) since my PC doesn't have the rest of the special hardware 🙂

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