Thanks, I'll try installing Opera GX on my laptop and move the files over to there to test it and be extra safe about it. Will update if everything works out.

I have used session buddy before back when I used Chrome but didn't know that it could work with Opera. Will definitely try to see if I can get it working because it was a godsend for me on Chrome.

@burnout426 said in How to recover a previous session in Opera GX:

@reveffect said in How to recover a previous session in Opera GX:

My wild guess is that I have to close opera gx, delete all of the files in the session folder, paste in the 7 am files, then re open opera and hope for the best?

That's the basic idea, yes. But, in this case, I would copy the 7am files to a safe place before closing Opera GX too, just in case they get removed if Opera creates a newer set when it closes that causes that 7am set to be deleted.

I would also make copies of the copies to use for restoration so that you still have the original 7am copies to try things again or a difference way.

Before you do that though, you can make a standalone installation of Opera GX, delete everything in its sessions folder (while it's closed), and copy the 7am files over to it. Then, you can start that Opera GX and test if things will even working without closing and interfering with your regular Opera GX.

I ran a test on the laptop version and it worked there and it also worked here on my desktop so I was able to get everything back. Thanks for confirming my hunch and giving me a way to test stuff like this out.

I've already seen some of the previous posts about this but wanted to be extra certain about a few things before potentially deleting everything by mistake.

In my case I had 3 windows open with one of them having over 100 tabs opened with some of them going as far back as early January and late december. While going through and closing un-needed tabs on that 100+ tab window I accidentally pressed the "close all other tabs" buttton. Since there were so many tabs that had been closed the option of simply opening previously closed tabs didn't work as it only allows you to open the past 20 or so tabs.

I had found a previous post on here about a similar issue. One key difference in my case is that I didn't lose the tabs as a result of a crash and I have not closed Opera Gx yet. I was able to find where my session folder is but the files are not labeled as "current session" "current tabs" "last session" "last tabs". I'm assuming the last session and tabs files are the ones highlighted from when I closed Opera earlier this morning around 7 am.

So now I'm wondering what do I do from here. The previous post I found talked about renaming the copied last session files so I don't know if I have to rename these files something else or if renaming isn't something that has to be done anymore. I will save the last session and tabs files to a separate folder for now until I get some instructions/advice.

My wild guess is that I have to close opera gx, delete all of the files in the session folder, paste in the 7 am files, then re open opera and hope for the best?

After restarting my computer a few days ago, Opera Gx has been performing very weirdly. It would become unresponsive after saving bookmarks but it wouldn't display the usual "opera gx isn't responding. Do you want to close it or wait?" kind of window. I could mouse over stuff and scroll up and down the page but anything that wasn't already in view before the freeze won't load in, the mouse pointer is slow to change icons when mousing over buttons, and trying to close tabs and windows doesn't take effect until after the freeze is over. I will usually have to wait around 30 seconds to multiple minutes before it starts working like normal again. This freeze will also occasionally occur at random which can make trying to watch streams a pain.

I tried using the recover option that keeps your personal data, but it continued to freeze even after that. When I tried to restart the browser my previous session with all of my opened tabs and windows were gone with just the "welcome to opera gx" tab open as if it was a new install but I still had all of my bookmarks. Problem is now it freezes like that upon opening and doesn't recover.

Lucky for me I had a hunch to back up the session and tabs files and exported my bookmarks and passwords before I attempted the recover option. Do I need to just reinstall at this point and how would I go about doing that if so? I'm also on a windows 10 pc if that matters.

@burnout426 said in How to recover a previous session in Opera GX:

@reveffect said in How to recover a previous session in Opera GX:

My wild guess is that I have to close opera gx, delete all of the files in the session folder, paste in the 7 am files, then re open opera and hope for the best?

That's the basic idea, yes. But, in this case, I would copy the 7am files to a safe place before closing Opera GX too, just in case they get removed if Opera creates a newer set when it closes that causes that 7am set to be deleted.

I would also make copies of the copies to use for restoration so that you still have the original 7am copies to try things again or a difference way.

Before you do that though, you can make a standalone installation of Opera GX, delete everything in its sessions folder (while it's closed), and copy the 7am files over to it. Then, you can start that Opera GX and test if things will even working without closing and interfering with your regular Opera GX.

I ran a test on the laptop version and it worked there and it also worked here on my desktop so I was able to get everything back. Thanks for confirming my hunch and giving me a way to test stuff like this out.

Thanks, I'll try installing Opera GX on my laptop and move the files over to there to test it and be extra safe about it. Will update if everything works out.

I have used session buddy before back when I used Chrome but didn't know that it could work with Opera. Will definitely try to see if I can get it working because it was a godsend for me on Chrome.

I've already seen some of the previous posts about this but wanted to be extra certain about a few things before potentially deleting everything by mistake.

In my case I had 3 windows open with one of them having over 100 tabs opened with some of them going as far back as early January and late december. While going through and closing un-needed tabs on that 100+ tab window I accidentally pressed the "close all other tabs" buttton. Since there were so many tabs that had been closed the option of simply opening previously closed tabs didn't work as it only allows you to open the past 20 or so tabs.

I had found a previous post on here about a similar issue. One key difference in my case is that I didn't lose the tabs as a result of a crash and I have not closed Opera Gx yet. I was able to find where my session folder is but the files are not labeled as "current session" "current tabs" "last session" "last tabs". I'm assuming the last session and tabs files are the ones highlighted from when I closed Opera earlier this morning around 7 am.

So now I'm wondering what do I do from here. The previous post I found talked about renaming the copied last session files so I don't know if I have to rename these files something else or if renaming isn't something that has to be done anymore. I will save the last session and tabs files to a separate folder for now until I get some instructions/advice.

My wild guess is that I have to close opera gx, delete all of the files in the session folder, paste in the 7 am files, then re open opera and hope for the best?