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Google Chrome User Data Reset

dletkeman
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Posted on ‎09-26-2019 10:42 AM

Does anyone have a script that they use to reset Google Chrome user data?

I found something similar for Safari at:
https://github.com/palantir/jamf-pro-scripts/blob/master/scripts/Reset%20Safari.sh

But couldn't find anything similar for Google Chrome.

I found a thread about this on Jamf Nation here but since the script would run with Casper admin I'm not sure that would work for me.

I imagine I could probably adapt the Safari script for Google Chrome as well...

I plan to distribute via a Self Serve policy with Jamf Pro.

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AtillaTheC
Contributor II

Posted on ‎08-18-2022 08:41 AM

I was looking for the same so I edited the one you linked and made this one. 

#!/bin/bash

###
#
#            Name:  Reset Chrome.sh
#     Description:  Resets all Chrome user data to defaults for the currently
#                   logged-in user.
#         Created:  2022-08-18
#         Version:  1.0




########## variable-ing ##########

killall "Google Chrome"

loggedInUser=$(/usr/bin/stat -f%Su "/dev/console")
loggedInUserHome=$(/usr/bin/dscl . -read "/Users/$loggedInUser" NFSHomeDirectory | /usr/bin/awk '{print $NF}')
userLibrary="$loggedInUserHome/Library"
uuid=$(/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | /usr/bin/awk '/Hardware UUID/ {print $NF}')
preferencesToReset=(
  "$userLibrary/Caches/com.google.Chrome"
  "$userLibrary/Caches/Google"
  "$userLibrary/Application Support/Google/Chrome"
  "$userLibrary/Preferences/com.google.Chrome.plist"

)



########## main process ##########



# Delete Chrome preference files.
echo "Deleting Chrome preference files to reset to system default..."
for chromePref in "${preferencesToReset[@]}"; do
  if [ -e "$chromePref" ]; then
    /bin/rm -rv "$chromePref"
  fi
done



exit 0
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