How to retrieve missing Google Profiles for gmail

February 2, 2024 2:34 PM

To manage different work gigs I set up different Google Profiles on my gmail account. All good. The only problem is that on another PC I work on, those profiles don't show up. How do I get the second PC to "see" all of my gmail profiles?
posted by storybored to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

Response by poster: Hmmm I may have worded this wrong. These are Chrome profiles rather than "gmail" profiles.
posted by storybored at 2:35 PM on February 2, 2024

In the Chrome menu, you go to [Your Profile Name] > Manage Profiles and you can sign in to those other profiles.
posted by ssg at 3:38 PM on February 2, 2024

If you didn't "sign into Chrome" using a Google/gmail account then there's no way to sync a Chrome profile between computers - the syncing is done with the Google account. The simplest fix is to simply create a google/gmail account for each profile and sign in with that. Then when you create a new profile on the other computer, simply sign in with the same account and it will sync bookmarks/passwords/extensions/settings/history etc - there's options to choose what you want to sync.
posted by gible at 5:52 PM on February 2, 2024