Workspace items totally removed

DoctorG

@instrumentally said in Workspace items totally removed:

\Session Storage

Delete \Session Storage folder in profile
Delete \Sessions folder in profile
Copy \Sessions folder back to profile

Does this work?

instrumentally

@DoctorG

No. That does not work. I have all my workspaces, but each one has 0 tabs in them.

DoctorG

@instrumentally I fear you last backup Sessions data was broken, too.
My idea, if you have Vivaldi Sync active, logout from it then copy back.

I know copying back works. Thats what i do when i have broken sessions.

instrumentally

So here's what I did. I noticed that in the \Sessions folder there were two files that had zero bytes. The zero byte files had the most recent date/time stamps. But there were two other files in the \Sessions folder that were sizable, yet older. So I made note of the file names of the 2 zero byte files, then deleted them. Then I duplicated the other 2 files which contained data, then renamed them to the file names of the 2 zero byte files that I just deleted. Then I launched Vivaldi and presto, my workspaces were back to normal, and all the tabs were restored.

The only complaint is that this would have been how things were at the backup which occurred at midnight, meaning, I lost any changes made in the 11 hours subsequent. But that's nothing compared to having no tabs at all restored.

Thanks for your help.

DoctorG

@instrumentally Oh good, you managed it to get sessions back.
Hard work for you.

instrumentally

So backing up the "\Session storage" folder is of no value?

DoctorG

@instrumentally In my opinion it is not needed to restore workspaces.

instrumentally

Any other folder(s) I should be backing up in addition to \Sessions ? \Sessions and \Session storage have been the only 2 folders I've scheduled backups on.

DoctorG

@instrumentally I backup the complete User Data\ folder.

I guess you do not need more restore experiments.
Restoring parts of profile is time-consuming and experimental.

ChinoKafuu

Hello, just this morning Vivaldi treated me so badly.
Yesterday I was just still doing some normal stuff. Turn off browser and shut down laptop like normal.
And now all my tabs in the workspace are gone.......
How can I fix this.........
Thanks guys

ChinoKafuu

@instrumentally Can you also capture you screenshot of the files that you renamed :?
I have this same problem
For the 2 files that you renamed them do they have the old timing of yours.
Thank you

mib2berlin

@ChinoKafuu
Hi, you can check Closed Tabs in the windows panel.
Do you have Automatic Session Backup enabled?

ChinoKafuu

@mib2berlin They are not in there, I saw a similar post today but they were of no use as well, with the whole sessions and sessions storage.
Both the folder only have the data of today (few hours ago when I started the computer) I also tried to sync data but did not work.
Really wanted to curse the devs right now tbh. Very frustrating

mib2berlin

@ChinoKafuu
Hi again, we get some reports from users since 6.9 but this is hard to reproduce. I never lost anything in Vivaldi since Vivaldi 1.0.
The developer are aware of this issue.
If you use sync, log out and change your device name, login and check if you can find your "old" device in the window panel > Synced Tabs.
Clean up you Vivaldi, cache and so forth and make a backup, enable Auto Session saving.
I backup all my important data, crash, power loss, etc. can destroy anything.

Cheers, mib

ChinoKafuu

@mib2berlin Well for me this happened multiple times already (3rd times to be exact). That is why it is extremely frustrating.
The first 2 times were not very important and I made several reports to the devs.
But now this is just ridiculous.
Anw tks for your time, I looked up all the folders and found nothing useful and decided to move on (for the 3rd time).

mib2berlin

@ChinoKafuu
Do you use any cleaning software?
It was repeated reported CCleaner wipe Vivaldi user data, for example.

DoctorG

@ChinoKafuu Welcome in our Vivaldi Community

Some useful links for you:

Help on Vivaldi Mail (mail client for use with calendars, feeds, mails)
Help on Vivaldi Calendar (the part of Vivaldi Mail client)
User Reputation to use Vivaldi mail account

Do not hesitate to ask, we are a community to help users.

Enjoy browsing with Vivaldi.

instrumentally

The session file names change every day, so a screen snapshot won't help you. The first thing you need to do is make a backup copy of the \Sessions folder because Vivaldi deletes old sessions files on a regular basis.

You don't say whether you make external backups of your \Default folder, or any folder for that matter.

All I can tell you is that what you want to look for are session files in the \Sessions folder that pre-date the time that your saved tabs disappeared. If that doesn't exist, and you don't have backups, then I would say you are probably out of luck.

Assuming you do have a sessions file of significant size, then you would want to make a copy of that file in the \Sessions folder, and then rename it to match the file name that has zero bytes. Of course, you'll have to delete the zero byte file before you perform the renaming process.

Again, stop now. Make a backup of the \Sessions folder. Exit Vivaldi, then do what I said regarding the file renaming.

It shouldn't be rocket science. A zero byte file indicates no saved tabs. The file(s) with the latest time/date stamp is what Vivaldi will use. But you can't do this operation if Vivaldi is already open/running.

Good luck.

Also, I would turn on AUTOMATIC session saving from your sidebar if I were you, going forward.

DoctorG

@ChinoKafuu Files with zero-byte length are broken and can be deleted.
In Vivaldi you can open each session file stored in Sessions\ folder by Vivaldi menu File → Open Saved Session.
https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/tabs/session-management/

That will give you back Workspaces if you reopen them in Sessions Panel.
https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/panels/sessions-panel/

ChinoKafuu

@mib2berlin Yeah I do but I wasn't using any of the cleaning software during the time. The last time I used it was 10+ days or so :v