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Jan 25, 10 | Chromium: “Your profile could not be opened correctly.”

If you are using the Google Chromium ppa, occasionally things are broken (specifically user settings).  For example, I have twice gotten the error:

“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.”

If this happens to you, I recommend the following fix:

Close Chromium

cd ~/.config/chromium

mv Default/ Backup/

Open Chromium

Close Chromium

rm -rf Default/

cp -R Backup/ Default/

Note: I am using Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), but this should work for pretty every dist.

22 comments

01/27/10 | Daniel

Great! Thank you for the help!

02/03/10 | etano

No problem. To be honest though, I have since switched to the Chromium Beta PPA.

05/01/10 | Antonio

The problem is with the file Default/Preferences, delete this file and the browser will run perfectly.

05/15/10 | Jesse

Nice site, I dig the simple theme; as a web designer I know a good interface when I see one. Thanks for the help on Chromium and nice photos of Cinque Terre! Cheers

06/07/10 | aeonsablaze

if (like me) your problem was not fixed by this solution try deleting the file “Web Data” from ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/

Worked for me.

06/13/10 | ron

Thanks, worked like a charm!

06/23/10 | Rick

Thanks! Solved the issue for me.

06/23/10 | Ariel

hello there, i tried this method and no success!,
and well what i did to solve this issue>> i just remove the file ~/.config/chromium/Default/History

command:
rm ~/.config/chromium/Default/History

I hope this help somebody
Thanks

07/13/10 | Andi Irwandi Langgara

In Windows

Default Profile Location.
C:\Documents and Settings\[YOUR_USER_NAME]\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data

* Rename Folder Default to ~BackUp
* Open Chrome
* Delete Folder Default
* Rename Folder ~BackUp to Default

….and Chrome Work Normal

07/14/10 | McJ

Thank you so much Ariel!
Same problem…
your method helped

07/14/10 | Tomas

Out of all the searching I did, Ariel’s method was the only one that worked. Thanks!

07/17/10 | biz

for me was aeonsablaze’s solution: delete “web data” the winner
thanks a lot!

07/20/10 | John

aeonsablaze’s solution worked well on my end.

07/22/10 | gunknown

Thanks. Here, removing Default/History was the winner ;)

07/25/10 | STEVE

WHERE DO U ENTER THESE COMMANDS IS THE ONLY THING I NEED TO KNOW

08/02/10 | Josh

Hi Steve, if you are following the original Linux instructions, you want to enter the commands from a terminal window.

I’m using Linux Mint, so my filesystem is organized a bit differently. My chrome directory exists in: /media/****/Users/Josh/BlackII/LocalSettings/Google/Chrome

Hope that helps!

08/09/10 | ellubo

Ariel: It worked for me too. Thanks

08/09/10 | Evan R. Murphy

Thanks for the tip, it worked for me!

What CMS are you using for this blog, by the way?

08/11/10 | linuxero

I am running google-chrome in ubuntu 8.10, the stable version.
I cleared the default directory opened google-chrome and it worked fine. Then I copied Backup into Default as directed, but the error message is displayed again.
I think this procedure may be improved by just deleting the damaged file. Any idea of which file is causing the problem?
Thanks

08/13/10 | Jade

@Ariel
Thanks,
rm ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/History
worked for me (ubuntu lucid)

08/13/10 | Beau

Just upgraded google-chrome stable in Ubuntu 9.04 and was plagued with this issue. Your fix worked, thanks!

09/02/10 | Donk

Excellent – this worked great for me, just another comment to say thanks! Ubuntu 10.04, Chrome 6.0.472.33 beta.

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