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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-129620

Instantiating `QWebEngineProfile` creates an empty data directory

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • P3: Somewhat important
    • None
    • 6.9
    • WebEngine
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    Description

      `QWebEngineProfile` provides methods to set data/cache/... paths, such as `
      setPersistentStoragePath(...)`. However, just instantiating `QWebEngineProfile` with a profile name creates an empty directory in the default data path (e.g. `%APPDATA%\<AppName>\QtWebEngine\<ProfileName>`), due to the following call chain:

      This is problematic especially for portable apps, which want to redirect all data files to a portable directory. I would prefer if the directory was created on-demand, instead of during the class initialization.

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              anualiyas Anu Aliyas
              matejkafka Matěj Kafka
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