[Python] "User directory already in use" Selenium Python

I am aware that there are other questions like this one on the site, but I have found that they are trying to do a different thing and the solution is not applicable to my case. The issue is that I want to run a few instances of chrome simultaneously which works fine right now, but I would also like to save the data from each of the instances. To test this, I have run this minimal example:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
import os
import time

profile_path = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), f"chrome_profiles/{time.time()}")

chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument(f"--user-data-dir={profile_path}")
chrome_options.add_argument(f"--profile-directory=Default")


service = Service()
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options=chrome_options)

driver.get("https://www.google.com")


This gives out the following error:

SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: probably user data directory is already in use, please specify a unique value for --user-data-dir argument, or don't use --user-data-dir


This is impossible since I literally used current time to create the user folder. But the folder gets created and then Chrome crashes. Mind you, I run only one instance.

What is the issue here?

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