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How to Backup Google Chrome Extensions

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Updated onOctober 8, 2024

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Has it ever happened to you? Your hard drive fails on you, and all those extensions you spent the last three years adding to your Chrome browser are lost with it. There are, sadly, several more ways this can happen. You can be a victim of a cyber attack, data theft, or several cyber misfortunes that have been known to happen.

Adding all your extensions back on takes a lot of work and time you may not have. If only there was a way to back up all your extensions and stop this sort of predicament from happening to you. Well, there is a way.

Maybe you’re here because those cyberweaselswho have been causing such havoc onlinehave already got to you. There is no better time to back up those super convenient extensions, which you can’t function without, than the present. Let’s get them backed up, shall we?

How to back up your Chrome extensions?

Here’s exactly what you need to do to backup your Chrome extensions:

That saved folder will be your Chrome Extensions backup. It will keep your essential business add-ons secure, such asZoomInfo. You won’t exactly look forward to your hard drive dying or yourextensions failing to load, but at least you now know you have the backup should that ever happen.

How to restore your Chrome extensions?

If your hard drive has indeed been wiped or corrupted, first, make sure your hard drive is now clean and safe to use. Assuming that, close all the open Chrome tabs and copy the backup file’s contents into the extensions folder we located earlier. That should restore all your Chrome Extensions.

Another thing to remember, though, is that the older extensions may not work like before because there is a good chance they may have since been updated. You will want to trash those that are over a year old and add them afresh. And to avoid having to do this, you can do a fresh backup every few months.

With all your extensions being up to date, you should be ready.

Milan Stanojevic

Windows Toubleshooting Expert

Milan has been enthusiastic about technology ever since his childhood days, and this led him to take interest in all PC-related technologies. He’s a PC enthusiast and he spends most of his time learning about computers and technology.

Before joining WindowsReport, he worked as a front-end web developer. Now, he’s one of the Troubleshooting experts in our worldwide team, specializing in Windows errors & software issues.

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Milan Stanojevic

Windows Toubleshooting Expert

Before joining WindowsReport, he worked as a front-end web developer. Now, he’s specialized in Windows errors & software issues.