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    Opera crashed, lost tabs, how to get them back?

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    • dimitri001
      dimitri001 last edited by

      Opera crashed and when I started it basck up the tabs were lost. How do I restore the lost tabs?

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      • A Former User
        A Former User last edited by

        What is the version of Opera?

        What was the nature of the crash? Happened before?

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        • dimitri001
          dimitri001 last edited by

          Its the latest version. It just crashed out of nowhere. Then when I tried to start it again it would report some error for a while (can't remember what it was), and then, that same day, without me doing anything or restarting, it suddenly DID start, but without any tabs.

          This hasn't happened before, I just installed Opera a few days ago.

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          • leocg
            leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

            How do I restore the lost tabs?

            If they weren't restored when Opera returned from the crash then i guess you won't be able to recover them.

            BTW, what are your start-up settings in Opera? For tabs to be recovered you need to set it to 'continue where i left of'

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            • dimitri001
              dimitri001 last edited by

              I had it set to "continue where I left of" and it WOULD restore it properly always except now when it crashed.

              Is there really no way to get them back?

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              • lando242
                lando242 last edited by

                Check your history and try and pick them out.

                You might consider looking into a session extension for Opera. They are more feature rich then the 'continue where I left off feature'.

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                • dimitri001
                  dimitri001 last edited by

                  But, c'mon guys, where does Opera store session data?

                  I'm googling and finding mention of autosave.win or lastsession.db, but I don't even have the folders where those files are supposed to be.

                  It saves them SOMEWHERE.

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                  • lando242
                    lando242 last edited by

                    It saves them SOMEWHERE.

                    Right. But if Opera crashed that means it was unable to save them properly. So either the file was empty or corrupt when you tried to start it up the next time. Thats why it didn't restore them in the first place. So its useless. If you really want to look open up your Opera profile folder, who's location you can find in Opera Menu > About Opera, and look got a file without an extension with the word 'session' in its name. IIRC it should be called 'last session'. 90% chance that its empty though.

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                    • leocg
                      leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                      where does Opera store session data?

                      In 'Last Session' most probably.

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                      • dimitri001
                        dimitri001 last edited by

                        Lando, you say:

                        "But if Opera crashed that means it was unable to save them properly."

                        But in Chrome, for ex., when it crashes it saves the CURRENT session (the one which, due to the crash, ends up empty), but it also has a file where the PREVIOUS session is saved, the one from which you drew the tabs for the current session, which has crashed.

                        Doesn't Opera have something like that?

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                        • leocg
                          leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                          Doesn't Opera have something like that?

                          I don't think so,. Or maybe it's bugged.

                          Or maybe the file got corrupted or maybe Opera didn't have the time to save the session.

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                          • warmylove
                            warmylove last edited by

                            I have similar situation (Opera started with blank page without crashing) but I can see all my "crashed" tabs in history. I would like to save my history (too much tabs to pick them one by one now). So here is my question: where can I found the history file/s?

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                            • leocg
                              leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                              where can I found the history file/s?

                              In Opera's profile folder.

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                              • warmylove
                                warmylove last edited by

                                Worked. Thank you.

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