How to move Chrome profiles to another computer

Moving to a new machine is the moment you find out how much was resting on one disk. Fifty profiles, each with a live session, and signing into every one again means several days of email and phone confirmations. Let us look at how to avoid that.

What actually needs to move

• Cookies and site data — they are what saves you from signing in again.
• Extensions and their settings.
• Which proxy belongs to which profile — otherwise all fifty windows on the new computer come out through your home address, and that will show.
• Your own order: names, categories, notes.

Why simply copying the folder is not always enough

A Chrome profile is a folder on disk, and you really can copy it. But some of the data inside is encrypted with a key tied to the Windows account on this computer. A folder copied directly to another machine may give you empty passwords and lost sessions — while the size suggests everything is there.

So it is better to move it not as files chosen by guesswork but by export: the program takes what is transferable, in a form that makes sense.

What actually moves from your everyday Chrome, and what does not

Let us be blunt, to save you time. If you mean the profile you use every day — the one that opens from the Chrome icon on your desktop:

Sessions are the one thing that cannot be brought back, and that is Chrome's own restriction rather than a shortcoming on our side: since version 127 it encrypts cookies so that they cannot be read outside their own folder, and since version 136 it has closed the workaround as well. The full explanation is in a separate article.

Which leads to the key point about timing: sessions become transferable from the moment you start signing in to sites inside Morfiade profiles. They cannot be extracted from regular Chrome after the fact — not by us, and not by anyone else.

How it is done in Morfiade

On the old computer

1. Tick the profiles that are moving (or select all).
2. "Export profiles" — you get one file with the profiles, cookies, proxies, categories and notes.
3. Release the licence with the button in the program if you are done with the old computer: you get a code for rebinding.

On the new one

1. Install Morfiade, point it at a folder for profiles.
2. "Import profiles" — pick the file.
3. Check a couple of accounts: the sessions should be alive.
4. Rebind the licence to the new computer with the code you got.

Export and backups work even with a closed licence. You can always take your own data with you, whether anything is paid for or not.

What breaks most often

The proxies did not come along. The addresses transfer, but if your proxy provider ties them to your former IP, they will only start working once you add the new address in their panel.

The session dropped anyway. Some platforms tie a session to an address and a fingerprint. If both changed in the move, you will be asked to sign in again — that is the protection behaving normally, not the transfer failing. Hence the practical advice: move profiles together with their proxies, rather than "move first, hand out addresses later".

A different Chrome version. The browser on the new machine may be noticeably newer. That is not frightening in itself, but the fingerprint is worth reassembling: it should match the real browser version, not the one from a year ago.

Not enough space. Profiles take up more than you would think. Count on a few dozen megabytes per profile and look at your free space before the import, not halfway through it.

While you are at it: backups

Everything written above is a ready-made backup routine, except the import goes back to the same computer. Doing an export once a month and putting the file on an external disk costs ten minutes, and saves you on the day the disk does not spin up.

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