Closed my main Opera window, forgot there was a smaller popup window still open. lost all tabs?

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zauberfritz @leocg last edited by

@leocg See my replay below, the use of History can be very limited.

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@zauberfritz right, yes that's exactly what I was saying.

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zauberfritz @moods last edited by zauberfritz

@moods Apologies for the duplication. Anyway, contrary to the header, you needn't forgot, you can be unaware (like you stated). You needn't do something wrong to lose your work

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @zauberfritz last edited by

@zauberfritz I was talking about the recent closed tabs/windows that are listed under the history menu..

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moods @leocg last edited by

@leocg recently closed was not helpful in this case. I don't think opera counts tabs as recently closed if you lose an entire window with 100 tabs.
I scrolled through all 90 days worth of my history... I found probably most of them.
I've installed session buddy.

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zauberfritz @leocg last edited by

@leocg @moods I can't check whether that would have worked, unfortunately. You do need to know (I only found out today) that that only shows a few tabs, but that you can/need to scroll to get more of them. I only find about ten now, but some days have past. But it's a solution to an issue that should not exist, at least not needs to exist. Hardly anyone would want to lose dozens of tabs opened in favor of a single windows that probably isn't even looked at, let alone typed or scrolled in. Opera here does the least logical, reasonable or obvious. A crude solution would be a restore option. People lose hours of work because of this, so prevention would be nice.

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zauberfritz @zauberfritz last edited by

@zauberfritz Come to think of it; a reason for having so many tabs open is that you may have different fields of interest like statistics, music, healthcare/medical. For some of these topics weeks may go by with you not working on them. An elaborate function might be you can group open tabs thematically and open them when you want to work on that topic. Each theme with its own history. But I understand that's another level of functionality.

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @moods last edited by

@moods You can reopen closed windows too

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moods @leocg last edited by

@leocg I looked, didn't see any of that.

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @moods last edited by

@moods Open a new window, open a couple of tabs in that window, then close the window.

Now look at Menu > History > Recently closed or click on the tabs menu.

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moods @leocg last edited by

@leocg I see it now, you're right... It does say "window" on the right side where the URL normally would be. It's not immediately evident because the title is just the name of one tab from that window. Thanks though, that's good to know for next time although I also have session buddy as another backup now.
Here is a screenshot with a few random websites as an example for anyone else reading.

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zauberfritz @moods last edited by zauberfritz

@moods Tried it too and it works Though, I used the menu, and I guess you clicked the clock symbol? I get this:

@leocg Thanks a lot. Wish I had known this before. I hope there will be no next time I will be able to use it of course. I stick to my view it should be prevented, for I think people will only learn about this when it is too late.