Vivaldi didn't open with previous session after relaunching. No "Last session" file. How to recover?
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Hello, my Vivaldi just terminated and reopened, with all my 6000 tabs disappeared after reopening.
Ctrl+Shift+T and trash bin doesn't work (records are empty)
According to past threads on the forum, I should be able to locate a "last session" file in Vivaldi directory and try to use that to recover my session.
However, such "last session" file doesn't exists in my user directory
According to information from forum on other Chromium-based browser, the "last session" file for Chromium was replaced by something else and they're now all stored in the "session" or "session storage" folder, but those links didn't provide any information on how to use those files to recover the tabs that have been lost.
Anyone have any idea how can I recover my tabs?Relevant links that fail to provide a way to resolve the situation:
https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/81479649/restore-last-session-last-tabs-after-crash?hl=en
https://forums.opera.com/topic/45115/current-session-and-previous-session-name-have-changed/27 -
@c933103
Hi, first is not to open and close Vivaldi, it create a new session file.
The Opera forum link description is working for me, it extract all URL from the last session file.
There are two session files, one actual and one from last time you use Vivaldi. They look like Session_13274218003300616 or similar.
A simple crash or Power failure can broke such files and all is lost forever.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin Well there are a few problems
First, my session contained close to 6000 tabs, and thus the original session data file, at least from what I can retrieve, was about 186MB in size. That webtool still seems to be able to handle it, but the webpage crashed when it try to generate the result
Second, my ~6000 tabs were organized into different windows and in different tab stacks. A pure list of those URL, unorganized, would be much harder to navigate through and is thus much less useful to me, hence it's much more desirable to have them open directly inside Vivaldi, instead of just displaying them as URLs. -
@c933103
I guess you have the 186M copied to a save place.
If I move the session files from the profile folder Vivaldi open with my speed dial page. If I copy the last session file back it open my last session with several tabs which I have crated for this test. I regular close my browser with 0 tabs.
The location of the files is: Users/xxx/AppData/Local/Vivaldi/User Data/Default/Sessions/
If you copy your big session file back it should open it, except it is corrupted. If it is corrupted there is no way to recover it, I fear.I removed the first two session files and copy the third back.
Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin This method succeeded but it only show roughly 5500 tabs but I couldn't visually identify missing tabs among those at first glance
Also, apparently the reason why Vivaldi didn't recover my session in the first place was because Adobe Acrobat Reader's addon autoupdated and make the browser open the addon's update page instead, instead of tabs from previous session
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@c933103
5500 from 6000 sounds not to bad.
No idea about the Adobe extension but sounds plausible.
I would recommend a plan to save your sessions away from daily work, maybe theme based or domain based.
They are save then, you can backup it and open the session if you need it.
And this sounds like a lot of work.
Cheers, mib
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