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How can I restore a lost Chrome session?
Update 9/5/2021: This answer and the script have been updated. Now it works again with the new Chrome "Session_" and "Tabs_" files.
Don't restart Chrome again yet (hopefully you'...
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How can I restore a lost Chrome session?
As I just had this happen to me let me describe the scenario and why CTRL-SHIFT-T doesn't work for me:
a new driver crashed my PC so I had to restart
while I waited for all the system tray icons (...
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How to recover unsaved file (Visual Studio Code)?
You can recover you projects from the VSCode cache.
In Linux it is located under /home/USER/.config/Code/User/History/ and under Windows it is /Users/USER/AppData/Roaming/Code/User/History/.
Each file ...
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Kali linux failed after upgrade
Ok here is the fix that worked for me:
My box was running live when I did this.
First download deb to another host:
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libi/libidn2/libidn2-0_2.0.5-...
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How can I restore a lost Chrome session?
I recommend using The Great Suspender. Besides allowing you to keep open tabs "suspended" (so they don't consume memory) it keeps a record of your windows and its respective tabs. My computer just ...
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How can I restore a lost Chrome session?
The easy way:
Press ctrl+shift+t as many times as required to re-open all previously opened tabs.
The slightly more complicated way:
Access your browser's history by pressing ctrl+h and select the ...
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Why is this data seemingly gone?
Very little time had elapsed since the deletion (thus if TRIM was enabled, it may not have had much to reallocate).
Time elapsed is irrelevant, for two reasons:
By default, NTFS issues discards (...
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KB5034441 and changing the recovery partition starting offset in order to be able to enlarge it
You likely need to delete and recreate the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) partition. Microsoft has an article on how to do this.
The process involves using native command-line utilities so there ...
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Luks header overwritten with dd
You asked:
Is there a possibilty to recover my header or is everything lost ?
I'm really sorry, but the LUKS header contains the passphrase-encrypted key(s) which unlock everything else. Without a ...
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Recovery on an ancient version of my TexStudio file
You have a few options:
TexStudio may have cached history and allows going back before the fateful save and exit
Data recovery on the drive can find the bits of the previous chapter that were not ...
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I have a dying HDD, how can I back up my data?
The accepted answer Is not great. If you highly value your data and willing to pay heavily, certainly stop using it and go to a data recovery agency.
If not, DONT do file by file recovery at this time....
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Recovery folder and file?
no, you have no hope of recovering data from that drive if you have used a secure erase utility.
Just formatting the disk or deleting the partition might have allowed recovery, but this kind of tool ...
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Disk Drill shows recoverable data after Eraser performance
The only way to properly erase a SSD is using the SSDs manufacturer's software. Other methods might not work, due to wear leveling and over-provisioning.
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Does TRIM option in SSD always work?
Not only (as said in the comments) the TRIM commands are not sent immediately after a file deletion, but in addition the TRIM command in itself does not erase anything on the SSD, it just tells the ...
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How to delete a Folder as if it hasn't existed at all
The crucial pieces nobody has mentioned so far are the change journal (USN journal) & MFT (master file table). Please see steps 2 & 3 of the below necessary steps which must be done to achieve ...
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MacOS Recovery error: "The recovery server could not be contacted"
Answer found on https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251177226
Option-Command-R was a solution, which started different Recovery image for Monterey version (proceeding successfully), while Command-R ...
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External Hard Drive lost after Making a Windows 10 Bootable USB
1st: I lost all my data on an external hard drive after creating a bootable USB
The reason is due to Media Creation Tools need to format the disk first and then writes its Boot Record followed by its ...
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Kali linux failed after upgrade
I succeeded to fix it:
From another computer I downloaded the libidn2.so.0 deb file and moved it to USB.
In recovery-mode, I succeeded to offline replace it with my file. Now wget, curl and the other ...
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How can I get Windows to install without enough space?
Assuming you don't want to keep anything on this computer, you can free up space by going to the command prompt and deleting the 'Program Files' folder which should free up some space to install.
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Data recovery bitolockerd partition
You had an encrypted partition which you've formatted by changing partition type.
Recovery tools attempt to read your data from disk and guess file types and boundaries, with encrypted data that's ...
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Deleting "Recovery" folder from Time Machine backup
You wrote, "I dont remember TM creating these Recovery folders, for each backup?"
I also have anew iMac, with the 512 SSD, 21.5" running Catalina OS 10.15.3 and I too now have ONE (1) Recovery Folder ...
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How can I recover after deleting libc++?
Hold down Cmd-R at boot time to boot into recovery mode.
When you install macOS, it makes a small, usually somewhat invisible emergency/recovery boot partition on your internal drive. Holding Cmd-R ...
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What happens when a file is deleted? Does the disk space decrease or does it stays the same?
Available space increases but the file data is not deleted until that space is needed by something else.
The main reason any disk recovery software works is because files are not actually deleted from ...
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Is “clean all” in “Diskpart” totally secure erasure method for SSD, HDD, USB flash drives and other storage device?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/clean
"all - Specifies that each and every sector on the disk is set to
zero, which completely deletes all data ...
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How to recover data from faulty NAS (2 HDD in RAID 1)
There is a paucity of meaningful information on useful details about this device but it seems that -
from your description of the problem the disks are physically Ok.
Its extremely likely the issue ...
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How to best repair a lost or broken partition on a valued external hard drive without losing data
The best answer is "don't".
Yes unallocated does point to a missing partition table entry. But people working in data recovery will always assume there's more to it (potentially) and so ...
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