Lost Open Tabs After Reinstalling Opera (Even Though I Used Sync) — Any Way to Recover?

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Hi everyone,

I recently deleted the Opera app from my phone, but before doing so, I made sure that Opera Sync was enabled and that my open tabs were supposedly backed up to the cloud. I reinstalled Opera on the same device, signed into my account, and enabled Sync again.

However, after signing back in, I noticed that my open tabs were missing, even though I could see my device listed in the Sync dashboard. There are no tabs listed under the device, just the device name.

I think what happened is that Opera recognized the device (since it's the same one), and when I re-synced with no tabs open, it overwrote the previously saved session — effectively syncing an empty state and wiping the cloud-stored tabs.

I checked sync.opera.com and only see my current (empty) session. I didn’t log into Opera from any other device, so there are no alternate sources to pull the old tabs from.

Is there any way to recover my previous open tabs? Or is it safe to say they’re gone for good?

Appreciate any advice — especially if there's a way to retrieve this data through history, cache, or any kind of backup I might have overlooked.