I transfer files between Mac laptops via an external drive (and concomitantly back all my stuff up) as so:
Laptop A > external drive 1 > Laptop B > external drive 1 > Laptop A and so on.
Recently my Brave extensions are deleted upon copying to either laptop, plus, when I open Brave Preferences, I am greeted with the error message "Some settings were reset. Brave detected that some of your settings were corrupted by another program and reset them to their original defaults. Learn more."
A poster on Reddit claimed that Chromium ties extensions to a hardware configuration. Be that as it may, Brave just deletes my extensions. I have tried dragging them manually into ~/Library/Application\ Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default/Extensions from the external drive, but they just disappear before my eyes.
Given my backup software (ChronoSync), I have tried to exclude the folders in Default that appear to hold extension data. So far, I have excluded:
- Extension Cookies
- Extension Cookies-jour
- Extension Rules
- Extension Scripts
- Extension State
- Extensions
- Preferences
But my extensions still disappear and Brave still displays the error message.
Is there any other file that I can exclude from backup?
