Overwritten tabs
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faieran last edited by
I had Opera open in two windows: one main and one secondary, on the other monitor. I closed the main window in a hurry, first closing the main window where all my tabs were, then closing the secondary window. Now, when I reopened the browser, the tabs from the secondary window were overwritten, and all the tabs from the main window were gone. This is the second time this has happened, and I'm hoping there's a way to recover them. Could someone help me with this?
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zauberfritz last edited by leocg
This is a lasting problem. Happend to me again yesterday. There are remedies; they say there's a shortcut and there's one with removing a file in a folder 'Session'. However, by now it is clear to me Opera (for years by now, this issue is reported regularly) stubbornly refuses to repair this design and programming error. When you close Opera there's a reassuring pop-up, 'Don't worry', you have X tabs open, Opera will restore them when you open it again. This is not true. You may have multiple Windows open, some opened by you, but you forgot, some may be opened by a website. A mail in Outlook may be opened in a separate window, which may happen unintended and unaware easily. When you click 'close' in the popup you will lose all you open tabs, despite the reassuring message. Until recently I could get them back with the Sessions trick, but this doesn't work anymore.
Dear Opera, please repair this: when you have multiple Windows open, at closing Opera please make a popup with a clear warning (in Red): you have X windows open and show the number of tabs in each one. Opera should make sure you don't close (without the correct warning) the window with most, say 70, tabs, when there is another windows with less (generally one) tab still open, throw those 70 away and open the one with the one tab the next time. One shouldn't need remove files to repair this error (the popup is misleading, Opera does not perform as notified). People lose weeks or months of work, just of poor design and programming. It's no rocket science, making this work. You may understand I'm a bit annoyed, so please forgive me the harsh tone. This will take hours to find and reopen my work again.
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zauberfritz last edited by
@leocg You generally may not know there's multiple windows open. You may have forgotten, websites open extra windows without you knowing, you may have clicked a mail in a way that opens an extra window. You can't expect users to keep track of the number of windows open.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@zauberfritz I think it's something very normal to expect. Or, at least, that people don't close the window with their main tabs.
But ok, there could be closing of windows by accident and that's why closed windows are usually listed under tabs menu and under History - Recently Closed.
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zauberfritz last edited by
@leocg I close Opera every night before I shut down my computer. That seems normal to me. The popup then says something like "You're closing X tabs, are you sure? Don't worry, they'll be restored...". Then Opera closes...that window. Generally this all goes well. However, sometime you find there is still another window open. You may have forgotten, but in my case I never knew it was there (like when opened by some website). Then all your tabs are lost. Until recently you could then remove the last tabs and sessions file and you were safe. This does not work anymore. Since this unknown or unaware window is the last one you used, as far as I know, your closed tabs are also gone (hard to test, for if the test fails your tabs are gone). Of course one could be suspicious every day (seems not good for user experience to me) and check whether there's a hidden window still open, but how much effort is it to warn you you're closing your window with many tabs, that you will lose, for there is also a window with only one tab (of a few) still open which (contrary to the reassuring popup text) will mean all your tabs are lost? Over the years I've seen multiple posts here of people losing hundreds of tabs this way. Why does Opera offer all kinds of user-friendliness and convenience, like storing passwords, but in this case tells us to be disciplined? But if possible I'll check the option you mention. I now use history but that only keeps record for three months.