title: local connection issue selenium web driver with chrome driver
body: <pre><code>package Demo;
  
  import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
  import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
  import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;
  
  public class Demo {
      public static void main(String[] args) {
          String userProfile = "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe";
          ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
          options.addArguments("user-data-dir=" + userProfile);
          options.addArguments("--start-maximized");
  
          System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Users\\Abhishek.Dalakoti\\workspace\\HomeShopDemo\\Chromedriver.exe");
  
          WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
          driver.get("http://www.google.com");
          //driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*input[@type='text']")).sendKeys("dell");
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is the error I get when running the above. Has anyone solved this?</p>
  
  <p>I've tried changing the versions of Selenium and ChromeDriver versions, but nothing worked.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: cannot create default profile directory
  
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.19.346078 (6f1f0cde889532d48ce8242342d0b84f94b114a1),platform=Windows NT 6.1 SP1 x86_64) 
  
  (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
  Command duration or timeout: 750 milliseconds
  
  Build info: version: '2.52.0', revision: '4c2593c', time: '2016-02-11 19:03:33'
  System info: host: 'HSNMM-AbhishekD', ip: '10.50.33.160', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.8.0_73'
  Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver
      at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
      at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:206)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:158)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:678)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:249)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.&lt;init&gt;(RemoteWebDriver.java:131)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.&lt;init&gt;(RemoteWebDriver.java:144)
      at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.&lt;init&gt;(ChromeDriver.java:170)
      at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.&lt;init&gt;(ChromeDriver.java:159)
      at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.&lt;init&gt;(ChromeDriver.java:148)
      at Demo.Demo.main(Demo.java:16)
  </code></pre>