Solved Restore last session

Med1aN1ck

Probably had two browser windows open and first closed the one with many tabs ... I have the following large files in the Default folder:

Last Session
Last Tabs
Session Storage/014330.ldb
Session Storage/MANIFEST-000001

Is it possible to restore from any of those the window session with many tabs?

Med1aN1ck

HOW TO RESTORE URLS FROM 'Last Session/Tab' FILES:

1. Download the Chromagnon tool, unzip & put the Last session/tab files into it
2. Download & install Python 2 (the 2nd version)
3. Launch CMD, navigate to your unzipped Chromagnon tool & run:

python chromagnonSession.py "Current Session" > current_session.log
OR
python chromagnonTab.py "Current Tabs" > current_tabs.log

The tabs' urls are exported together with the history of each tab.

iAN CooG

don't you see them in the trashcan (upper right)?

Med1aN1ck

I didn't look there at the time and there isn't anything now - can anything be restored from the files listed?

...or the folder 'Session Storage'?

Med1aN1ck

There's a large "Last session" and a large "Last tab" file that remained from before accident, as well as a few backup files in the "Session storage" directory - can one at least read their contents ?

Med1aN1ck

HOW TO RESTORE URLS FROM 'Last Session/Tab' FILES:

1. Download the Chromagnon tool, unzip & put the Last session/tab files into it
2. Download & install Python 2 (the 2nd version)
3. Launch CMD, navigate to your unzipped Chromagnon tool & run:

python chromagnonSession.py "Current Session" > current_session.log
OR
python chromagnonTab.py "Current Tabs" > current_tabs.log

The tabs' urls are exported together with the history of each tab.

iAN CooG

Cool, thanks for the link.

Treap

@med1an1ck
cool, i understand nothing after 2., how do i make it work ? :V

Nebu

@med1an1ck said in Restore last session:

HOW TO RESTORE URLS FROM 'Last Session/Tab' FILES:

1. Download the Chromagnon tool, unzip & put the Last session/tab files into it
2. Download & install Python 2 (the 2nd version)
3. Launch CMD, navigate to your unzipped Chromagnon tool & run:
python chromagnonSession.py "Current Session" > current_session.log
OR
python chromagnonTab.py "Current Tabs" > current_tabs.log
The tabs' urls are exported together with the history of each tab.

Hi. What do you mean by 1. "... put the Last session/tab files into it"? Put them where? In the Chromagon folder?

I also have Python 3.5 installed, is it necessary to run exactly version 2?

ROTFL

@Med1aN1ck Interesting...

...but

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LuigiTheHunter

@Nebu @Treap

Copy the files ["Last Session","Last Tabs"] from C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Default to the directory where you saved the Chromagnon tool.
Run this: "python chromagnonSession.py "Current Session" > current_session.log"
And or this: "python chromagnonTab.py "Current Tabs" > current_tabs.log"
I then you put the files in C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Default\Session Storage
Profit

DEUnit

@Med1aN1ck said in Restore last session:

Python 2 (the 2nd version)

Hello. Sorry, if I have to post in the old thread. Have exactly the same problem.

Where do you get the Python 2 (the 2nd version) for download?

There are many versions here: https://www.python.org/downloads/

Could anyone help me, please.

DEUnit

@Gwen-Dragon

Have the version 2.7.15 installed.

How does that work with the commands exactly?

I think I'm doing something wrong.

Komposten

@DEUnit
Your first command is missing the spaces that separate the parameters.
Your second command has a trailing " that shouldn't be there.

That said:

Did you navigate CMD to the folder containing the .py scripts (where you are in your second screenshot) before trying to run the command?
The Last Session and Last Tabs file should probably be in the same folder as chromagnonTab.py and chromagnonSession.py, not within the chromagnon folder you have highlighted in screenshot 2.

DEUnit

Thank you very much for your detailed help.

A very nice forums moderator

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comandos

@LuigiTheHunter Ported to Python 3, run them, put to that folder. Nothing happened.

comandos

@Gwen-Dragon Nope. You need to port those scripts to Python 3.

chorn

Hi,

i followed the instructions and got the current_session.log and current_tabs.log files, looks good, then i tried to

I then you put the files in "C:\Users%username%\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User...

but nothing happens, no session or tab is restored after a restart and i dont see any menu that would do so.

chorn

Hi Gwen,

the export via the python tool worked fine, i just don't know what to to with these files - how to import them back into Vivaldi - as just putting them in any session folder did nothing and the format doesn't look like any of the other files.

greetings.

chorn

Hi Gwen,

isnt it User Data instead of User/Data? But i already copied the files there, i start up Vivaldi and it doesnt restore anything, all that shows up is the tab with this forum. I also tried to delete the Current/Last Tabs and Current/Last Session files first, but no difference. I dont think its a file naming mismatch as i copied the python CMD commands from here.

chorn

thx for caring.

i just came up with an individual solution: after exporting the Current Session file with the python script, one could just use this PHP script to convert it into a bookmark file that can be imported back into Vivaldi

<?php

$log = file_get_contents('current_session.log');

$lines = explode("\n", $log);
$i = 0;
foreach($lines as $line){
    if(strpos($line, 'SetTabWindow') !== false){ $i++; }
    if(strpos($line, 'http') !== false){ $tabs[$i] = substr($line, strpos($line, 'http')); }
}
$tabs = array_unique($tabs);

echo '<!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<!-- This is an automatically generated file.
It will be read and overwritten.
Do Not Edit! -->
<TITLE>Bookmarks</TITLE>
<H1>Bookmarks</H1>
<DL><p>'."\n";

foreach($tabs as $tab){
    echo '<DT><A HREF="'.$tab.'">'.$tab.'</A>'."\n";
}

echo '</DL><p>';

i used it like php log2bookmark.php > bookmarks.html

maybe that helps anyone.