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Google chrome lost bookmarks in Ubuntu 12.04 using multiple gmail account

For different purpose, it is possible to have different gmail account, like we have different mobile phone numbers. But now, google still have some problem when to combine different gmail accounts. Rencently, when I log in a third gmail account using gmail "add account " function, my other two gmail accounts automatically log out, and my sync data of bookmarks bar lost all the bookmarks when log in back using the other two gmail acount.   In Ubuntu system, the bookmark info is stored in two files in the path /home/user/.config/google-chrome/Default/(notice, it is in a hide file in Ubuntu ), one is Bookmarks, the other is Bookmarks.backup.  When new gmail account is created, new profile folder will be created in the path: /home/user/.config/google-chrome/Profile */, but the old Bookmarks and Bookmarks.bar are not auto copied to the new Profile folder,  so you must manually copy the Bookmarks and Bookmarks.bak from the path /home/user/.config/google-chrome/Default/ into thi