Delete a profile

Deleting closes the profile's browser first. A row that disappears while its browser keeps running leaves a window nothing can reach and files nothing owns.

A profile moved to the recycle bin in the web account or on another computer while it is open here is closed by the app at the next lock check, once a minute, with the line “Profile closed: it is no longer in the account” in the bell. Its browser, if it outlived the app, is closed the same way the next time the app starts.

Locked profiles under a profile password are not deleted in a batch. Before the delete window opens, the app takes them out of the selection and names them in one line, “Skipped because of a password: …”; the window lists only the rest.

A profile you have opened with its password (for ten minutes, or until you quit the app) goes with the batch. Delete a locked profile on its own: the app asks for its password first.

1. 1

   Right-click the profile card

   Or press the three-dot button (More) on the card and choose Delete.

2. 2

   Read the delete window

   The Move to the recycle bin window names the profiles: up to ten names, the rest as a number. If some of them are open, the window says how many, and they are closed first.

3. 3

   Press Move to the recycle bin

   For many profiles at once, select them and press Delete on the bar above the list: the same window opens.

4. 4

   Find it under Recycle bin

   In the left column below Extensions.

The delete window has the box Delete permanently right away, without the recycle bin. Under it you always see what that means: cookies, sign-ins and site data on this computer are erased, and the profile cannot be brought back.

The box is not remembered: every window opens with it clear. Profiles of other people shared with you still go to the recycle bin: only their owner can delete them permanently, and the line under the box says how many there are.

Above the list of the bin stand a search by name, group or who deleted, and the choices Deleted by and Deleted. On the right you see how many rows are left after the search: Shown 3 of 14.

The row of a profile says who deleted it: you or a person's email, and through the API when a script deleted it through the local API. A profile deleted on another computer does not have this part yet.

The record and the data both stay. Cookies, saved sign-ins and site data are untouched until you delete the profile permanently.

Profiles sitting in the bin do not take a slot of your plan.

Restore puts the profile back in the list with everything it had. The plan is checked again at that moment, so a full plan refuses the restore instead of putting back a row the next sync would drop.

A profile deleted on another computer shows here as being on your account, and restoring brings it back to this machine too.

Several at once: tick the rows and press Restore selected. Room on the plan is counted for all the selected ones before the first comes back: if it is short, the window says how much is left and brings none back.

The confirmation names what goes with the record: the cookies, the sign-ins and the site data on this computer.

1. 1

   Open the Recycle bin

   In the left column below Extensions.

2. 2

   Press Delete permanently

   On the row you want gone.

3. 3

   Or press Delete selected permanently

   For the ticked rows. If some of them are hidden by the search or the choices above the list, the question says how many.

4. 4

   Or press Empty the recycle bin

   The same thing for everything in it at once, including what the search and the choices hide: the question names that number too.

The browser data folder, the profile's extension choices, its schedules, its launch entries and its counters. Its encrypted session in the shared folder goes too, so a second computer cannot bring it back.

The browser is closed first here as well: erasing under a live process is how an erase fails.

If the files could not be removed the app names the reason instead of showing a green line. That case matters most: a browser still holding its files is exactly when you would have believed the machine was clean.