Restored session does not restore properly
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Hello,
I am having issues with restoring saved sessions. I am trying to restore a session that was working properly when saved. It was saved with workspaces. When I try to restore it, the workspaces are completely messed up. Most tabs get dumped in the main window, outside of any session. Some tabs get placed into a "Restored workspace" workspace that didn't exist.
Even after I sort everything back in its proper place and save a new session, if I load this one up the same thing happens. Not entirely sure what the problem is here.
Do note that these are pretty big sessions, with several hundred tabs spread over multiple workspaces.
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@CristiNeagu Did you open the session with workspaces or as tabs? Is the main window the unnamed workspace? Tabs placed in a window are not outside of the session, they could only be outside their designated workspace. And yes, when you open workspaces as part of a session they are renamed.
All of this makes sessions unsuitable for opening different work environments concurrently. You cannot work on something in one session and open another window with another session. You cannot really close a session and open another one. I see sessions purely as a backup. I can only have one session and different backups of this session. If I lose the main session, or lose tabs of the main session, I restore a previous session, delete the current workspaces and rename the old ones. It’s for emergencies.
What sessions should be in my opinion: Each session is exactly one window. If I have a session (window) open, and I open another window it should open “blank,” with just the empty window workspace. Then I am able to load one of my many sessions into that window, edit, save, close sessions, and so forth.
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@luetage said in Restored session does not restore properly:
Did you open the session with workspaces or as tabs?
With workspaces.
@luetage said in Restored session does not restore properly:
Is the main window the unnamed workspace?
The tabs are dumped in the main window.
@luetage said in Restored session does not restore properly:
Tabs placed in a window are not outside of the session, they could only be outside their designated workspace.
Yes, but isn't that strange? As far as I can tell, there's no missing tabs. They're just jumbled up in between workspaces, and sometimes they're in newly created workspaces, or even out of any workspace. Seems like there might be some issue with how Vivaldi tells where one workspace ends and where another begins. I don't know what the save format is like, but could there maybe be some sort of integer overflow because of how many tabs I have in a single workspace? Maybe there's a tab ID and it's an 8 bit integer.
@luetage said in Restored session does not restore properly:
And yes, when you open workspaces as part of a session they are renamed.
Yes, they get "(session)" appended. What I'm talking about is new workspaces that didn't exist before which are named something like "Recovered workspace (session)". (I think I'm remembering that correctly.)
@luetage said in Restored session does not restore properly:
All of this makes sessions unsuitable for opening different work environments concurrently. You cannot work on something in one session and open another window with another session. You cannot really close a session and open another one. I see sessions purely as a backup.
Well, that's a bit of an issue. I use them as backups too. When I load a backup session I will close all tabs and all workspaces. I will only have one window opened with only the startup page, and no workspaces. When I load a session, it opens up a new window, and all the workspaces are messed up as I described.
@luetage said in Restored session does not restore properly:
It’s for emergencies.
I agree. I had an emergency
@luetage said in Restored session does not restore properly:
What sessions should be in my opinion: Each session is exactly one window.
Yes, that would make sense. But as far as I can tell, each window is a view into the session. If you open a new window you'll get all the workspaces in the other window, and you can access them. Only thing it does is that it won't open a workspaces in two windows at once. It will switch to the other window instead.
Thanks for the reply.
