chrome profile broke at somepoint when afking

[splake975]

I was using user_data_dir = profilePath/ in my start() and I afk'd for some time only to come back and try to restart my program some time later and it not starting. I am running my py code directly from cmd. I suspected that it must have been my profile that broke, so removing user_data_dir did actually fix my problem. but now I cant use my old profile since I assume it has been somehow broken. I tried to make a new profile but user_data_dir is just busted now and idk how to fix it

I have a feeling this has to do with my code not removing temp profiles until the program fully ends? I close and reopen the windows (I might change it to not do this in future) in my program and each time I close it doesnt seem to remove temp profile. could the code killing before the removal of the temp profile break the profile specified in user_data_dir?

Edit: I just tried it on my other computer that I didnt have this restarting issue and its also broken. did a chrome update break something?

[splake975]

this is the error I get when starting with a profile path now

browser = await uc.start(headless=False, user_data_dir = profilePath, sandbox=False, use_subprocesses = True,lang="en-US",browser_args=["--start-fullscreen","--disable-features=TrackingProtection3pcd"] )
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Python312\Lib\site-packages\nodriver\core\util.py", line 96, in start
    return await Browser.create(config)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Python312\Lib\site-packages\nodriver\core\browser.py", line 91, in create
    await instance.start()
  File "C:\Python312\Lib\site-packages\nodriver\core\browser.py", line 352, in start
    raise Exception(
Exception:
                ---------------------
                Failed to connect to browser
                ---------------------
                One of the causes could be when you are running as root.
                In that case you need to pass no_sandbox=True

successfully removed temp profile 

I did try setting sandbox=False as you can see in the arguments but still nothing works.

[splake975]

if i use absolute path (i was using a relative) it still doesnt work in either user_data_dir, or using the flag f"--user-data-dir=path"

using user_data_dir fails to start the chrome instance, the flag starts but doesnt load the profile

[splake975]

Im bad and the answer was that my cmd wasnt given admin. thanks for reading the logs of my incompetence.