Kiran, can you please take a look?

Tested this issue with chrome #64.0.3282.119

Steps followed :
1. Logged into Windows 10 machine and launched the chrome from desktop by double clicking on it.
2. Observed the bookmark bar and chrome settings are synced
3. Close the browser.
4. Launch the chrome with --user-data-dir argumeents

Observations:
On launching chrome observed the same bookmark bar and chrome settings, that were seen in step 2

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johan.mollevik@ Could you confirm that this issue you are facing ???

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It looks like the issue I have encountered. The test procedure is not the exact same I used but I think it shows the same problem.

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Tested this issue with chrome #60.0.3112.90 as steps mentioned in comment #2 and observed the same behaviour, this is a non-regression issue hence marking it as untriaged.

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Question to both the reporter as well as Kiran:

Do you have any policies in effect? If so which ones? 

The video from Comment 7 clearly shows that chrome is storing the User Data in the specified location and it seems like the RoamingProfileSupportEnabled policy is in effect and syncing the two profile locations.

Hi Julian, above issue was tested in "Local Sync Test Environment-Regression Test" environment where RoamingProfileSupportEnabled policy is in effect.

Then the feature is working as intended and syncing between the local profiles. Since it is applied as a system wide policy it is effective in all instances regardless of their location. If you try this without the roaming profile feature turned on you will not observe the profiles getting synced.

I assume this is the case for the original reporter as well but I would like to get the feedback there as well to avoid wrongly triaging the situation.

johan.mollevik@ Could you please respond to the comment #8,#10

Hi

I just redid my original test.

The difference in test method from what I can see in the videos in #2 and #7 closes down the first window before opening the second profile, if I do that I can also observ that the profile path changes in chrome://version
What I originally reported was that when leaving the first window open the profile path did not take efect.

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Re #12: But you have no policies otherwise?

Without anything overriding it --user-data-dir should be applied regardless of the fact that other windows are opened and if it doesn't this is a bug.

Yes, I could not find any chrome related policied being in effect. We had one that we disabled to get it working in the first place a year ago but now no chrome replated policies should exist.

On that note, is there any way from within chrome to report what policies it picks up in case chrome and the windows admin tools does not agree on that?

Yes, this is in my opinion a bug.

Yes, newer (as in 63+) versions of chrome provide the "Export" button which will store a JSON file with all policies as loaded by the browser which you can use to attach to bugs or analyze internally.

I have done som further testing and thing that this bug can be closed as not a chrome bug.

The issue was, when looking in the windows policy managment tools we saw no policys affecting chrome. However when typing chrome://policy/ in the address bar we did.

This is most likelly caused by bad caching behaviour on the windows side. Running gpupdate and rebooting some machines cleared the issue.

Thanks for your help and quick response time. If anyone comes across this with a similar issue my tipp is to check chrome://policy/ rather that just trusting what windows reports.

Thanks for the feedback!