After a pop up about certain features not working due to low storage space, my data is gone
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Iambadatnamess last edited by leocg
2 days ago I've been moving like 70GBs of various files from one drive to the other, and as I finished doing so I noticed Opera GX showing a pop up about certain features not working due to low storage space, I check my drives and sure enough, main drive that I have the browser stored on was filled, WizTree showed me it was the temp folder filling the most of it, so I went and just deleted the folder caused by me moving the files, but... why was Opera showing me the size warning? There was still 20GBs shown to be left on that disk, that ain't a small amount. I ignored the issue and went with my day.
One PC reboot later I try to launch Opera and see that the shortcut I had on my desktop and task bar lost it's icon, when I try to use it it says the "launcher.exe" shortcut has been moved or deleted. Opening files through Opera works just fine. Then I noticed I've been logged off everything and my browser history is completely gone, like, 4 freaking years gone. Despite being logged off, my saved emails were still there, settings and everything else just fine..? I tried checking for my "profile" folder after looking up about the browser history problem... but it was nowhere to be found! Nothing!! Neither in the trash bin, nor any other folder. What the heck caused this and is there any possibiity that it's reversible???
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@Iambadatnamess It was Opera GX or it was Windows showing the warning about disk space?
Even 20GB nay be a low space amount depending on how much space an app or a system needs -
leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@Iambadatnamess Launcher.exe stopped being used a while ago, but Opera kept the file in existing installations to avoid problems.
Maybe now they are removing those files? -
Iambadatnamess last edited by
@leocg It was in Opera. I wanted to get something playing in background and noticed the pop up in top left of the browser window.
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Iambadatnamess last edited by
@leocg That's weird then, because the file was working perfectly for a long time, even after updating to the latest version the other day, I also recal but I'm nopt 100% sure having launcher.exe stop working randomly already once maybe a year or two ago and then reinstalling the browser and using the shortcut that had made, so I'm even more confused about this situation
