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Hide 'Your profile could not be opened correctly'

Whenever I launch google-chrome, a window is displayed which contains this message:

Your profile could not be opened correctly.

Some features may be unavailable. Please check that the profile exists and you have permission to read and write its contents.

What is the source of this problem?

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marked as duplicate by jokerdino♦, jrg♦ Apr 30 '12 at 13:38

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This worked for me. Give it a try, this procedure includes a backup of your google-chrome profile folder, so that you can revert it if this seems not to work for you.

Pasted here for your convenience.

  1. If the browser is open, close it down.
  2. Open a terminal and run: mv ~/.config/google-chrome ~/.config/google-chrome-old
  3. Launch google-chrome, you will be asked to choose your search engine, your choice.
  4. Close coogle-chrome (yes, click the close button)
  5. After closing the browser you will have a new user profile at ~/.config/google-chrome
  6. Then let's copy your profile into the new place by running the next in the terminal. cp -r ~/.config/google-chrome-old/Default ~/.config/google-chrome/

I hope this help you.

Good luck!

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can i remove after all this google-chrome-old folder? – geoh Apr 30 '12 at 13:43
Yeah, sure you can. It was created just as a backup in case that you wish to restore the profile as mentioned in step 6. You can -indeed- to simply remove the original files without backing up, after which Google Chrome will create a new (empty) one. – Geppettvs D'Constanzo Apr 30 '12 at 15:23
This is yet working in Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS – Geppettvs D'Constanzo Apr 19 at 0:24
hm. i am pretty sure it works in 13.04, why do you think it will not work ? – geoh Apr 19 at 11:28
Oh well, I wasn't asking. Just informing that it works in 12.04 but thank you anyway. – Geppettvs D'Constanzo Apr 19 at 15:12
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Probably it is a bad permission on the directory where the profile is stored. Your user should have rw permission and be the owner of it.

~/.config/google-chrome

is probably the directory so you may have to execute:

sudo chmod -R u+rw ~/.config/google-chrome
sudo chown -R your_user ~/.config/google-chrome

or simply remove the directory so Chrome will make a new one:

rm -r ~/.config/google-chrome
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