Profile picture in new Microsoft Edge won't update

Anonymous
2020-02-29T19:50:56+00:00

The new Microsoft Edge won't update my profile picture; it is still using an old one.

Steps that I have taken:

1.  I have updated the picture twice online in my Microsoft account.

2.  I have deleted the old picture from both of my Windows 10 systems.

3.  I have deleted my Edge profile several times.

4.  I have uninstalled and reinstalled Edge.

Nothing that I have done seems to help. Would like to know if this is a bug or something else is going on.

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-08-04T20:55:25+00:00

    Got mine to update today by going to Edge settings & logging out the back in & it was fine from that point on. Hope this help some others.

    Thanks,

    SPP

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-07-10T07:40:47+00:00

    I have the same error,.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-06-30T00:25:48+00:00
    1. Sign out account in windows account
    2. Go to Settings in Microsoft Edge
    3. Select tab Profiles
    4. Your Personal Profile should be error
    5. Add Profile
    6. Sign in with your personal account
    7. After sign in it will create a new personal profile (Personal 2)
    8. Remove your first personal profile
    9. Edit Personal 2 name if you want

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-04-29T12:34:55+00:00

    The followings work for me:

    1. Go to C:\Users<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default
    2. Create a image file with your profile picture, name it as "Edge Profile Picture.png" if it doesn't exist. 

    I started to look for something like this but, wasn't quite sure where to start. Excellent information, this absolutely worked for me.

    I considered just renaming the existing file .bak and see if it would force a replace but on my first system I just replaced it with my own image and restarted Edge and it worked just fine.

    Thanks again, great advice.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-03-01T18:24:44+00:00

    Interesting aside - I hadn't gotten around to installing the new Edge on my laptop until yesterday, after I had changed my profile pic. When it installed, it pulled the new picture. This makes me wonder if there isn't a hidden folder or some code somewhere on the local machine that holds onto the old picture for some reason. Every other instance locally and online that uses my Microsoft profile is showing the new picture.

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