You've managed to make a mountain out of a mole hill. I promise you you're way overthinking this. And that's not how Chrome works at all. When you turn off syn

You've managed to make a mountain out of a mole hill. I promise you you're way overthinking this. And that's not how Chrome works at all. When you turn off sync, it just stops syncing up to Google, it's got nothing to do with local on-disk storage.