Users have disappeared

[LewysG]

Hey guys, I recently updated my Vivaldi browser. Before this, I was using multiple users for school and personal use, however, now that I've updated there isn't the option to change users in chrome://settings. I know this is more a chrome problem, however, I'm wondering if there's anything you guys know that can help me. I'm panicking bc if I lose my school user I have to search for all my resources again.
Thanks in advance.

[LewysG]

It looks like this for those of you wondering. No option to change users.

[Gwen-Dragon]

This option to open users by chrome://settings/people was removed by Chromium developers.

But you can try this:

• Close a running Vivaldi
• Open shell/command line
• Start Vivaldi with (yes, the parameter is empty!)
  open -n /Applications/Vivaldi.app --args --profile-directory=

This will start a window where you can select a user.

[LewysG]

@Gwen-Dragon So I've lost all my sites for revision and help? well that sucks thanks anyways

[Gwen-Dragon]

@LewysG said in GUYS HELP!!! Users have disappeared:

So I've lost all my sites

I do not really understand what you mean.
Did you try to open -a /Applications/Vivaldi.app --args --profile-directory= in command line to get a list of your already used user profile? You can select a profile ans open it.

[LewysG]

@Gwen-Dragon said in Users have disappeared:

open -n /Applications/Vivaldi.app --args --profile-directory=

So I ran the line of code in terminal

And it just opens a new window as if I had just freshly installed Vivaldi, it doesn't get me a list of my user profiles (I have 4)

[Gwen-Dragon]

Sorry, i can not imagine what differs a Mac from regular Linux.
On my Linux vivaldi -profile-directory shows me the window with the found user profiles.

So you should wait until a Mac uwer can help you.

[LewysG]

@Gwen-Dragon Ok thanks for trying to help

[Gwen-Dragon]

@xyzzy can you help?

[AltCode]

Use open -a "Vivaldi" --args --profile-directory=

That should give you the window @Gwen-Dragon is talking about.
Note: Vivaldi must be fully closed before you use that command line.

[LewysG]

@AltCode oh ok I didn't try it fully closed

[Gwen-Dragon]

@LewysG Oh, i forgot to say, that Vivaldi should be closed before. I will change my post.

You may create something like a desktop shortcut for start of the User Manager.
Do you get all your profiles back?

[xyzzy]

@Gwen-Dragon I've never had multiple users defined so I've never personally seen this break or tried to recover from a situation like this. I'll ask about this internally.

Also, DO NOT use "open -n Vivaldi.app" to launch Vivaldi, especially if Vivaldi.app is already running. This will enable you to have multiple instances of Vivaldi.app open at the same time and this can corrupt your Vivaldi profile.

@LewysG For now, my immediate advice is to Quit Vivaldi and make a backup copy of your ~/Library/Application Support/Vivaldi directory before trying anything else.

[Gwen-Dragon]

@xyzzy said in Users have disappeared:

Also, DO NOT use "open -n Vivaldi.app" to launch Vivaldi

Ooops.
I changed my old post to -a. Please have a look if that is ok now?

[LewysG]

@Gwen-Dragon @xyzzy @AltCode It now works, thanks guys you are a life saver

[xyzzy]

@Gwen-Dragon said in Users have disappeared:

I changed my old post to -a. Please have a look if that is ok now?
open -a /Applications/Vivaldi.app --args --profile-directory=

Actually, that will produce an error. The correct syntax is either:

$ open -a Vivaldi --args --profile-directory=

(as @AltCode wrote; use the appropriate quotes if the application name contains spaces or other characters that could be misinterpreted by the shell) or

$ open /Applications/Vivaldi.app --args --profile-directory=

[ryofurue]

For your information, you can try this on the command line

ls ~/"Library/Application Support/Vivaldi/"

to see what user profile(s) you already have. "Default" is the default one.