I recently had a nightmare where all three of my profiles were totally gone, and only one of them had sync setup, and that was the one that managed to recover itself (presumably by auto-syncing from the MS servers). So it seems like if I were to create a microsoft account for each of the profiles and enable sync (with ALL of the options enabled) then that scenario wouldn't be an issue if it happened again. As long as I logged into sync again on the 3 profiles I'd be good. I think I wouldn't even need to have the three profile names be the same, as long as they logged into their correct accounts. Right?
Background:
I wanted to downgrade Edge because I was experiencing some weird behavior and that turned out to be a bad decision for my non-synced profiles. Luckily I was able to recover from a system restore in safe mode, but it was looking bad for a while. It's making me paranoid now about having a backup. I saw that Shawn had created a guide to backing up edge folders in app data and registry, but it looks like sync would render that backup process as not necessary and would definitely be more up to date. The backup still has a use case, were you to delete stuff and it sync and then it's gone - you could restore it from your backup (but probably overwrite any new stuff).
Background:
I wanted to downgrade Edge because I was experiencing some weird behavior and that turned out to be a bad decision for my non-synced profiles. Luckily I was able to recover from a system restore in safe mode, but it was looking bad for a while. It's making me paranoid now about having a backup. I saw that Shawn had created a guide to backing up edge folders in app data and registry, but it looks like sync would render that backup process as not necessary and would definitely be more up to date. The backup still has a use case, were you to delete stuff and it sync and then it's gone - you could restore it from your backup (but probably overwrite any new stuff).
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Win11 Home
- Computer type
- Laptop
- Manufacturer/Model
- Acer Predator Triton
- CPU
- i7-11800H
- Memory
- 32GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- GeForce RTX™ 3060
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Samsung 43" super widescreen
- Screen Resolution
- 3840x1080
- Hard Drives
- 1TB SSD internal, 2x4TB SSD external
- Keyboard
- Logitech silent thing
- Mouse
- Traditional MS Intellimouse
- Internet Speed
- 120down/44up
- Browser
- Edge mostly
- Antivirus
- MalwareBytes/Defender