ChromeDriver options not working

[Iron Bars]

I am trying to create a python script utilizing ChromeDriver which opens a new message in gmail and then autofills the to and subject fields. However I am having problem without even getting to the last part. I tried to follow the latest options information on selenium page but even though the options to me look like they match it does not work. The options are not applied on the opening page at all. I want it to be maximized and to use my user data so I don't need to login but it just does not. My chrome is 125.0.6422.142 and so is my ChromeDriver. My selenium is 4.21.0 and my python is 3.12

from selenium import webdriver

def open_chrome():

    options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()

    options.add_argument("--start-maximized")

    options.add_argument("--user-data-dir=Current user data dir")

    driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)

    driver.get('https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ogbl#inbox?compose=new')

open_chrome()

[Sir Jo]

if your user-data-dir path contains space (as I see) maybe you need to add quotation mark, so try with

options.add_argument("--user-data-dir=\"Current user data dir\"")

[Iron Bars]

That is not my actual user data path, the correct one has backslashes and no spaces, but the maximized option should still work

[Sir Jo]

when you use --user-data-dir argument you need also use --profile-directory argument

p.s.: errata corrige: if path contains space no need to use quotation marks