i lost my account and all my tabs. are there simple ways to recover everything

[Ayespy]

@fish1 No username or password are related to local storage of tabs by your browser on your computer. To open the browser and access its data, there is nothing to sign in to. @mib2berlin may be on to something concerning where some of your tabs might still be recorded.

It sounds as though you had 4 windows open and somehow closed them all at once?

[fish1]

I hope all my tabs are recorded. it took a long time to accumulate them. they are important to me and it will be extremely disappointing if they have been accidentally deleted permanently. i did have 4 windows open and there was a long list of tabs in each one of them.

[fish1]

I don't know what you're trying to get at. all i want is to know how to recover all my tabs,if possible

[mib2berlin]

@fish1
If you don´t have any tabs in "Closed Tabs" in the window panel they are lost.

Cheers, mib

[fish1]

I don't know where closed tabs is. i can't see it anywhere

[Pesala]

@fish1 On the Trash can context menu, and in the Window Panel.

[fish1]

There's nothing that says-trash can context menu and there's nothing in the windows panel. I clicked on the trash can icon on the bottom left side and it's empty as i mentioned before.

[Pesala]

@fish1 If you have any closed tabs they will show up on the Trash Can menu.

If you have none, the Closed Tabs folder still shows up in the Window Panel.

[dude99]

If both last session & closed tabs are not available in the Trashcan, we can still manually restore lost session & tabs from C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Default\Sessions folder with Session & Tabs files. Normally, there are 2 pair of such files in the folder, the older pair are the 2nd last session (Session file) & closed tabs (Tabs file).

To restore the backup session & closed tabs,

1. go to the above folder (User = OS account user name),
2. move the newest pair files to another folder,
3. restart Vivaldi to force Vivaldi load the older files.

The only problem with this method is if you have already startup & shutdown Vivaldi multiple times after the tragedy occured, then you won't be able to recover the older session & closed tabs because Vivaldi always overwrote older files with newer files upon each startup. So you must use this method as soon as you discover Vivaldi have lost your session & closed tabs after startup, & before you restart Vivaldi. Normally I would move the older pairs to another folder before shutdown Vivaldi to preserved the older files, then move the newest pair to recycle bin after shutdown, & restore the older pair into Session folder before startup Vivaldi.

Now, I know this info probably wont be helpful to most newbie because they don't know about this advanced info & made the mistake of restarting Vivaldi after Vivaldi ate their homework from yesterday, & so the older session & tabs files are probably gone...

So I have made a feature request to remedy this problem since 2020, please upvote this Request to allow user load 2nd last session directly via Open Session dialog , instead of hacking Vivaldi installation folders.

[fish1]

@Pesala When i click on the vivaldi icon,it doesn't show up the same as your screenshots. There's no trash can menu and closed tabs doesn't show up in the windows panel

[mib2berlin]

@fish1
It is in the window web panel not in the Vivaldi menu:

Cheers, mib

[fish1]

My window web panel doesn't look like the screenshot.

[A Former User]

@fish1 can you share a screenshot how it looks on your side?

[fish1]

My window panel on the left side is fixed. it doesn't pop out from the side like yours does and it's a red background.

[fish1]

I tried to take a screenshot unsuccessfully.

[A Former User]

@fish1 can you see the words closed tab when you click on the button like in screenshots shared by others

[fish1]

I don't have that button. when i hover the cursor over the bin icon on the bottom left,it says- show closed tabs and control click to reopen last closed tab but it's empty as i mentioned before

[mib2berlin]

@fish1
Please check the help page about window panel:

https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/tabs/window-panel/

Cheers, mib

[fish1]

That doesn't help. my window page looks different to that

[mib2berlin]

@fish1
OK, we need a screen shot.
What you can try:
Open the Notes panel with Ctrl+Shift+O
The next icon downwards is the window panel
Make screen shot

Mib