When moving the User Data folder, the TOR connection does not work

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Hi.

I am a new user of the Brave browser.

Previously, I moved the user data folder to another drive in the Chronium browser and everything worked.

But TOR doesn’t work in Brave Browser after moving the User Data folder.

I created a folder on the D drive and opened Brave using the command:

“C:\Program Files\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe” --user-data-dir=“D:\Brave\user data”

TOR tabs don’t work, it just doesn’t connect, nothing happens BUT when I open Brave Browser with the original location of the User Data folder, everything works.

Maybe someone knows what to do to make TOR work when the user data folder is moved?

Windows 10

Brave v1.76.74

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@hammercfulton4

Brave Browser installation location on Windows OS

Application “brave.exe”

64 architecture

C:\Program Files\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe

The initial Brave Browser Profile is, by default, named “Profile 1” (unless you change that name → brave://settings/getStarted).

The folder that contains the initial Brave Browser Profile, is the Default folder (a name that you must not change):

C:\Users[UserName]\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\

That path may also be written:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\

If you create 1 additional Profile (aka “Profile 2”), it will be stored in folder Profile 1:

C:\Users[UserName]\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Profile 1\

If you create a 2nd additional Profile (aka “Profile 3”), it will be stored in folder Profile 2:

C:\Users[UserName]\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Profile 2\

IMPORTANT - Replacing Profile folders

When replacing Brave Browser Profile folders:

Folder named Default (including its contents) can only replace its likeness: the folder named Default.

Folder named Profile 1 (including its contents) can only replace its likeness: the folder named Profile 1.

Folder named Profile 2 (including its contents) can only replace its likeness: the folder named Profile 2.

IMPORTANT - Brave Browser Preferences

Some Brave Browser Preferences are stored in the Preferences file:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Preferences

The contents of that Preferences file, are not exactly the contents of, brave://prefs-internals/.

Some Brave Browser Preferences are stored in the Local State file:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Local State

Bookmarks and Bookmarks.bak files:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Bookmarks
%LOCALAPPDATA%\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Bookmarks.bak

Cache (folder):

%LOCALAPPDATA%\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Cache\

Cookies (file):

%LOCALAPPDATA%\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Cookies

History (file - usually lots of data):

%LOCALAPPDATA%\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\History

Crash Reports:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\BraveSoftware\CrashReports\

I would experiment, with hard and soft Windows OS symlinks:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/131182-create-soft-hard-symbolic-links-windows.html

in addition to using the --user-data-dir=“D:\Brave\user data” command.

BTW, a hard link will not work across the (C: to D:) boundary.

Also, when you first used the command:

“C:\Program Files\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe” --user-data-dir=“D:\Brave\user data”

Brave Browser would create a new Brave Browser Profile, here:

D:\Brave\user data\[new BB Profile folder]

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