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    • am2605A
      am2605
      last edited by A Former User

      Hi,

      I have two profiles I use regularly - both are sync'ed with Vivaldi accounts. I've also noticed when I click on the icon in the toolbar to close accounts there's a third "Profile 1" account.

      I've tried deleting this multiple times by doing the following:

      • Click the toolbar icon
      • Click "Manage People"
      • Click "Person 1"
      • Click "Remove Person"

      But Person 1 will always reappear next time I close and re-open the browser.

      Is there a way to get rid of it permanently?

      Thanks!

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      • luetageL
        luetage @am2605
        last edited by

        @am2605 Works for me, I am able to remove a profile with this method. Something goes wrong for you. The profile is nothing but a folder in your Vivaldi installation, you can try to remove it manually by visiting your profile path. Switch to the person/profile you want to remove and visit vivaldi://about. Look up the profile path, log out of Vivaldi Sync for that profile, close Vivaldi and delete the folder. You cannot remove the default profile, it will simply reappear but will be reset. Logging out of Sync is the decisive step here I assume. You gotta distinguish between profile and sync account. You can log into a sync account on any of your profiles.

        github ◊ vfm

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        • PathduckP
          Pathduck Moderator @am2605
          last edited by

          @am2605 Another thing to check is if the last profile window you're using before closing Vivaldi is not the one you want to remove.

          Profiles are stored in the Local State JSON file in the User Data folder. This can be viewed in a tool like JSONedit (http://tomeko.net/software/JSONedit/).

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          The Profile 2 in this example is the name of the profile folder. The Test1 is the profile name. You can delete this entry in the file, save it, delete the actual folder, and then the profile will be gone for sure. Make sure Vivaldi is closed completely before (obviously), also check in Task Manager if there's any stray vivaldi.exe processes around before doing this.

          I seem to remember another user having a similar problem so there might be a bug here for some situations.

          > BTW, today I cannot connect to mozdev.org, would you know why?
          Maybe that big lizard escaped and ate the server admins? :-)
          -- Richard Grevers, on opera.beta

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          • luetageL
            luetage
            last edited by

            @Gwen-Dragon No, I’m pretty sure Profile 1 is the first profile created by the user in addition to Default, the third one would be Profile 2. Default is the default profile. Create an additional profile and take a look at your config files.

            github ◊ vfm

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            • hlehyaricH
              hlehyaric @luetage
              last edited by

              @luetage I have only two profiles: Default and… Profile 2. I've just created a third profile: Profile 3. It seems Default=Profile 1.
              I'm on Mac, It may be different on other OSes.

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              • luetageL
                luetage @hlehyaric
                last edited by

                @hlehyaric Hmm, can be. But the deciding factor is that this profile is named Default in your config files, not Profile 1.

                github ◊ vfm

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                • hlehyaricH
                  hlehyaric @luetage
                  last edited by

                  @luetage You're right. Actually, I don't have a Profile 1, only Default and Profile 2.

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                  • am2605A
                    am2605
                    last edited by am2605

                    Hi,

                    Thanks to everyone who replied. Based on the advice here I've come up with the following solution:

                    • Logged out one of my accounts from sync and deleted it locally
                    • Change to "Profile 1" and logged into sync using this account

                    I think where I went wrong was creating a new profile for both my vivialdi accounts and then trying to remove Profile 1. It seems that "Profile 1" must exist regardless.

                    Thanks again
                    Andrew.

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                    • luetageL
                      luetage
                      last edited by

                      @guigirl That’s what I expected. I knew that profile names in the vivaldi directory don’t get reused once the person is removed, but wasn’t clear whether it starts with profile 1 or profile 2 when a user creates their first additional profile. So I guess we can finally agree that profile 1 is the wrong term for the default profile.

                      github ◊ vfm

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                      • am2605A
                        am2605
                        last edited by

                        Right, so it seems I probably set "Default" to sync to one of my profiles, then created 2 more. Possibly set Profile 2 to sync to my other, and tried to delete Profile 1, which either didn't delete, or kept being re-created?

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                        • am2605A
                          am2605
                          last edited by

                          @guigirl Maybe. To be honest, now it works, I can't be bothered trying anything else. Especially since it looks like I'll get shade thrown on me if I call it Profile 1 instead of Default 😂

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                          • luetageL
                            luetage @am2605
                            last edited by

                            @am2605 throwing shade… I want to learn this trade.

                            github ◊ vfm

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                            • am2605A
                              am2605
                              last edited by

                              Sorry I was flippant. A couple of the comments triggered me :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_closed_eyes:

                              I've just checked my profile folder and I do have "Default" and "Profile 2" only now. I think disabling sync was the key to it. But I'm really reluctant to break my system to prove it ☹

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                              • hlehyaricH
                                hlehyaric @luetage
                                last edited by

                                @luetage To begin with, read Fifty shades of grey…🤭

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                                • luetageL
                                  luetage @hlehyaric
                                  last edited by

                                  @hlehyaric And there I thought my remark was terrible. Thank you for taking it to another level.

                                  github ◊ vfm

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                                  • hlehyaricH
                                    hlehyaric @luetage
                                    last edited by

                                    @luetage said in Permanently Deleting "Profile 1":

                                    to another level.

                                    Yes, right down to basement.

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                                    • am2605A
                                      am2605
                                      last edited by

                                      It's all good. I gotta say I did feel like a d***head when I was asked why I wanted to delete Profile 1 last week, so I kind of wondered if this was a friendly place or not. But I think from the banter this morning it is, so...I'm all good now. ☺

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                                      • hlehyaricH
                                        hlehyaric
                                        last edited by

                                        @guigirl So long and thanks for all the fish.

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