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 this new profile files. Then all the  bookmarks will come back in the Google bookmarks bar.

Notice, importing the html bookmarks function in the Bookmarks->Bookmark Manager dose not work, as the default Bookmarks file is not in correct .html format. And if you want a correct .html format bookmarks for later import or for other browser, you must manually export the google bookmarks using  the function in  Bookmarks->Bookmark Manager->Organize->Export bookmarks to HTML file
   

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