Opera on Windows deleted all browsing history and is not saving current history

[pillowcase1]

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I was using Opera and it suddenly crashed. When I got it working again, I noticed that all my previous browsing history was showing as empty despite the fact that I've used the browser for a long time. Additionally, any current browsing I do is not being saved under history. Is there a way to restore previous history and get the history function to record current browsing history as well?

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by burnout426

Doubt you can get your history back. But, to fix history recording, I would goto the URL opera://settings/clearBrowserData and clear both "browsing history" and "download history" for all time. Then, goto the URL opera://about, take note of the "profile" path, close Opera and delete the "History" file in the profile folder. You can delete the History-journal file too, which should be empty.

Then, history should start recording again.

Are you using Opera Sync and syncing History? If so, see https://reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/opera/known_issues/#wiki_deleting_history_entries_can_wipe_out_all_history_when_opera_sync_is_enabled for something to avoid.