Copy/paste across Chrome profiles?

[socketbox]

First, let me express my gratitude for the 4.0 release; the roadmap ahead seems very promising.

I have multiple Chrome profiles that I use simultaneously (a set of windows in a work profile, a set of windows in a personal profile, etc). Sometimes, I create a window or a set of tabs in a profile, but then want to move them to a different profile later.

Copy/paste would seem ideal for this, but it doesn't work. Is there a way that I can request this feature (ie. cross-profile copy/paste)?

Best regards,

Casey

[Session Buddy Support]

Thanks for your message!

Cross-profile copy/paste is already possible, but SB needs access to the system clipboard to copy/paste across profiles. I'm pasting a recent post I made about this below. Let me know if you have any questions.

Session Buddy (since v4) allows copy/paste of tabs and bookmarks (either open tabs in the current session or links in a saved collection). This works to copy tabs/bookmarks across collections within a Session Buddy instance but also across profiles/browsers if you opt into the required clipboard permission.

To enable copy/paste to work across profiles/browsers, the Session Buddy extension on both profiles/browsers must be given clipboard access. To do this:

1. Right-click the Session Buddy icon, then click "View web permissions"

2. Scroll down to "Clipboard" and set it to "Allow"

Do this on every profile/browser that you want to share tabs across via copy/paste. When you do this, Session Buddy will use the system clipboard instead of its own (app-specific) clipboard.

To copy/paste tabs or bookmarks:

1. Select the tabs or bookmarks you want to copy. Use ctrl (or cmd) + click to select multiples.

2. Hit ctrl (or cmd) + c or right-click and click Copy

3. Select the target session or collection

4. Hit ctrl (or cmd) + v to paste. To paste into a specific position, right-click a folder or bookmark and click Paste.

So... if you want to open in browser 2 some tabs that you have open (or stored in a collection) in browser 1, open Session Buddy in browser 1, select and copy the tabs, then flip over to browser 2, open Session Buddy, and paste directly into the current session (aka "This browser").

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[jo...@ajollylife.com]

There doesnt seem to be a way to copy  with the folder/window info though is there? (+ you cant control-a in a collection)

[Session Buddy Support]

> There doesnt seem to be a way to copy with the folder/window info though

That's correct for the time being. We intend to remedy that.

Hans

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[Session Buddy Support]

> you cant control-a in a collection

Good call. Added to the backlog.

Thanks,

Hans

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[socketbox]

Hello there. I'm sorry to resurrect this thread, but I have just now attempted to copy between profiles (after switching Clipboard permissions to "Allow" in both profiles). I'm afraid it doesn't work. Here is some more information about what's occurring:

1.Can successfully copy to the clipboard from the source profile and I can copy in both "link" format and JSON

2. Can paste this copied content into a file, the browser address bar, etc

3. I'm running Linux Mint and I'm using "Ungoogled" Chromium Version 129.0.6668.89

4. When I open the DevTools console, I see the following when I attempt to paste: `main.bundle.js:2 no clipboard nxs mime content`

Casey

[Session Buddy Support]

Right. Cross-browser copy/paste currently only works when you use "Copy" (as opposed to "Copy as...").

Future versions will be more versatile in being able to handle multiple tab formats.

Hans

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[Jolly]

The old export option was vastly superior:

I could easily pick:

1) Format

2) What to include

3) Copy to Clipboard, vs Save to file.

Same thing for import.

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