Where are Opera Tabs and Tab Groups Stored

[nefret1453]

nefret1453 last edited by

I am an Opera user, I moved to a new computer and it did not sync any of my old data. That's why I made a full physical backup. I restored this backup, but open tabs and tab groups are not loading. Where are these tabs stored as a file location?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @nefret1453 last edited by

@nefret1453 Opened tabs are stored in the Sessions folder inside the profile directory.

[nefret1453]

nefret1453 @leocg last edited by

@leocg i checked there but, there is no Sessions folder.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @nefret1453 last edited by

@nefret1453 That's strange.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by burnout426

On Windows, the "Sessions" folder should be in "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Default".

Are you sure you made a backup of the whole ""C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable" folder from the old computer (including the "Default" folder)?

You should see files like this in it:

Session_13348571665369126
Session_13348656000326931
Tabs_13348571665673553
Tabs_13348656002298614

The Session_timestamp files contain your opened tabs and should contain what islands and workspaces they belong to.

The Tabs_timestamp files contain your recently-closed tabs list.

If you're able to find them, you can delete all files in the current "Sessions" folder and place copies of the backups there to see if your tabs get restored. Just note that sometimes this might not from one computer to the next.

[bigmell]

bigmell @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426

Ahoy!

If I wanted to alter this file to close some tabs and do some general purpose tab management, how would that be possible? I tried opening the file in notepad and it didnt open right. It appears to have some kind of encoding. Is there some program I can use to open it and read it in plain text?

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @bigmell last edited by

@bigmell See https://www.google.com/search?q=chromium+snss+file+format. You'll have to find or write an SNSS file parser that supports writing changes back to the file.