Upgraded to Mountain Lion/Can't find Google Chrome folder

[SomethingBlue42]

Hi I just did a clean install of Mountain Lion and am slowly migrating my files back on to my machine from a Time Machine Backup. I was trying to drop my old Chrome settings folder found in HD/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome into the corresponding folder on my machine but it's not there. I had to do a search to find it in my Time Machine backups but a search isn't producing anything on the new machine.

Things I tried that didn't work:

turning on hidden files in finder (still not showing up)
Dragging and dropping it into the place it's supposed to be (no change in Chrome/still acts like it's newly installed with no settings)
Adding .html to the Bookmarks file in my backups (just made a gibberish file)

I really just want my bookmarks so if anyone can help me out here I'd appreciate it.

 

[iVoid]

It doesn't go into the Library folder at the root of your boot volume (MacintoshHD), it goes in your user directory's library folder:

Macintosh HD/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome

 

[SomethingBlue42]

Well this is fun. There's no Library folder in there. I don't think ML installed right because I'm having all kinds of problems with it. Everytime I move files it makes a copy instead of just moving it and it asks for my password for e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g.

I might redo the clean install following the instructions you guys have on here. It would probably be easier that troubleshooting everything

 

[imacken]

Sorry if you are aware of this, but the Library folder is hidden in 10.7 and 10.8.
You have to option-click on View to see it, or use a Terminal command to make it permanently viewable.
As I said, sorry if you were already aware of this, but I thought I'd just mention it.

 

[SomethingBlue42]

I thought that might have been the case but when I turned on hidden folders it still didn't show up. Maybe I used the wrong code to turn it on. Thanks for the heads up! I'll look into it more

 

[imacken]

For the Library, it's chflags nohidden ~/Library/

 

[benthewraith]

Hi I just did a clean install of Mountain Lion and am slowly migrating my files back on to my machine from a Time Machine Backup. I was trying to drop my old Chrome settings folder found in HD/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome into the corresponding folder on my machine but it's not there. I had to do a search to find it in my Time Machine backups but a search isn't producing anything on the new machine.

Things I tried that didn't work:

turning on hidden files in finder (still not showing up)
Dragging and dropping it into the place it's supposed to be (no change in Chrome/still acts like it's newly installed with no settings)
Adding .html to the Bookmarks file in my backups (just made a gibberish file)

I really just want my bookmarks so if anyone can help me out here I'd appreciate it.

Have you tried using chrome sync? Imports all your addons, bookmarks etc.

 

[iVoid]

I've always wondered about the logic behind hiding the user library, but keeping the system library and system folders visible. Those are even more dangerous to poke around in.

 

[SomethingBlue42]

Chrome sync worked to a certain extent but it only have like half of my bookmarks. When I get it all sorted out I'm DEFINITELY going to look in to how to keep that more up to date because that would have been so much easier

 

[nrakha]

chrome trouble

I started using Chrome two weeks ago on my MacBook Pro, w/ OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G56)

At first all was well. Then all hell broke loose. My computer just started acting - dare I say it - like a PC! Slow, beach balls all over the place, I felt like my unit was having a mental break down.

So, I go to uninstall Chrome, but can not find it anywhere. Not in applications, not in the now hidden library, where could it be? I want to delete this bugger.

 

[block-head]

I don't see any chrome folder in the "/Users/username/Library/Google" directory... In there I only see:
-Google Chrome Brand.plist
-GoogleSoftwareUpdate