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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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chris_conley
Brass Contributor
Oct 07, 2019

Koen Zomers  Unfortunately you have to know what profile number is associated with the displayed profile name.

 

For example, on one of my laptops Profile 1 = firstname.lastname@outlook.com, Profile 2 = firstname.lastname@work.com, Profile 3 = whyisthissohard@edgedev.com, etc.

 

If I want to access my work profile, my shortcut Properties looks like this:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge Dev\Application\msedge.exe" --profile-directory="Profile 2"

 

It would be great if Microsoft supported profile names in the argument, such as this:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge Dev\Application\msedge.exe" --profile-directory="firstname.lastname@work.com"

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AllanRoss
Copper Contributor
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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