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Yesterday, I wanted to clean up my favorites in Edge (remove duplicates, remove obsolete links). In the midst of this, Edge closed without warning or error message. When I restarted Edge, it closed immediately. I could not select the three dots in the top right. It closed too quickly.
I found several possible solutions including tools in the Settings/Apps menu, other fixes involving removing and then reinstituting the %LocalAppData%\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe directory
None of these fixes worked.
When I restart Edge, it closes immediately.
How can I get it to work properly?
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Force-close Edge and any open msedge.exe processes in Task Manager-Details.
Go to this folder:
C:\Users"your_username"\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge
Delete the folder named "User Data".
Restart Edge and synchronize your Microsoft and Google accounts.
When I open Microsoft Edge it opens but close in few seconds
My pleasure. I originally was keeping them by renaming the folder, but that was a waste of space. So now I just delete them. Edge will repopulate what it needs anyways. I do import/link to my Google account as well every time I delete the folder and start over. All of my Favorites come back, as well as my stored passwords.
Thank you so much!. I'd tried so many things that were suggested on so many forums and failed.
After deleting these files it works perfectly :)
I use the latest Dev Canary builds of Win11. Mine has been fine for the last month or so, then the latest build did it again for about 1 day. I force-closed Edge, deleted the Edge User Data folder, re-opened Edge. Sync'd all my favorites, and it's working again. For how long? Who knows. :-)