Questions tagged [session-restore]
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Can I "restore tabs" in Microsoft Edge from another user's profile?
I had a new User Profile created for me, with the old User Profile still available and readable by me.
I am a bit hesitant about doing a "rough" Edge user data migration, of just copying the ...
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Stop Auto-Playing YouTube Videos When Restoring Google Chrome Session Tabs Only
I regularly have a large number of tabs open, and often several of these tabs are YouTube videos which have been paused. For the sake of an example, let's say I have 12 tabs with paused YouTube videos ...
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Where does Microsoft Edge store InPrivate sessions?
I understand this is a tricky question. I was visiting several important sites on a borrowed device (Windows 11 Pro, Edge up to date), using Microsoft Edge in InPrivate mode (like Chrome's Incognito ...
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Get rid of the "Restore pages" warning in Microsoft Edge
I am resurrecting this question, because I haven't found any conclusive answer or working resolution. This question was asked 1,5 year ago and the problem still exists.
Whenever you close your system ...
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Where does Google Chrome save the startup websites, continue where you left off?
I had to install a fresh Windows 10 on a new SSD.
The SSD on which the previous Windows 10 is installed is OK,
all files can be accessed from D:\.
About the favorites, I copied the files located in
D:\...
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How to turn off Firefox session store files' compression
Not sure which Firefox version turned on compressed session store, but seemingly have a situation where not only did the current file not get written in a format LZ4 tools can decompress, but also the ...
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Can I restore a lost Chrome session? [duplicate]
My chrome crashed on me and the restore previous session button didn't work. Is there a way to restore previous session? I had 4 windows with different tabs opened through days and they were saved ...
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How to restore chrome tabs after a reboot if you accidentally closed the restore popup?
I had dozen of important tabs I carried for couple days, though I did open and close several other tabs, and then i hat to reboot my computer because it was stuck.
As usual when i launched chrome, ...
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Wait for the server in PuTTy
Is there any run switch or configuration setting in PuTTY for Windows that instead of showing me this screen:
Would rather ask me a question, if I want to wait some time and try to reestablish the ...
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Recover Chromium Edge session that couldn't reopen
I have it set to "continue where you left off" in the startup settings, but this time, it didn't. I had several windows with a total of over 1000 tabs. Whenever I started them up, they froze ...
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Cannot restore session despite box being checked?
All of the sudden, NPP has stopped remembering my sessions. It's already frustrating enough that sessions are not remembered between versions, now they are not even remembered between restarts. I am ...
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Save and restore terminal on reboot in Ubuntu 20.04
The answer is present for previous Ubuntu LTS versions here but this does not work for Ubuntu 20.04 since 20.04 LTS does not have the option to Create new and then Link to application from the desktop....
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Restoring Chrome Session from index.dat files
I had 50 tabs open in Chrome, that I lost due to unfortunate reasons, from 4th July, 2020. Since then, I have stopped using Chrome, trying not to overwrite the Last Tabs files, but Chrome has been ...
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Trying to restore previous session in Google Chrome, without Last Tabs/Last Session files
So I had a massive amount of tabs/windows open in Google Chrome, went away for a bit, and Google Chrome had closed. I reopened Google Chrome, which gave me no option to restore the session despite ...
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Why is this tab opening on startup, and how do I prevent it from happening again?
I have Firefox set up so that on startup, it opens with the browsing tabs from the previous sessions restored. This is desired behaviour, so I don't want to change that.
The issue I'm having is that ...
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Save Multiple Sessions of All Open Files, Apps, and Windows in Linux
Say I have two projects that I'm working on. I have a series of apps (ex. Chrome, LibreOffice Writer, a terminal) open for Project 1. I have a different series of apps (ex. Chrome, Eclipse, VLC) open ...
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How to recover remote desktop session?
I have access to PSTools but when I connect to the target using RDP - I get black screen.
I tried:
psexec -u user -p password \\target C:\windows\system32\reset session 2
but then when I re-connect ...
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Is there a way to recover unsaved Wikipedia edits in Firefox?
I've tried https://superuser.com/a/1363748/180573, but it seems the recovery.baklz4 doesn't contain any textarea items for Wikipedia edit forms.
I'm very disappointed; is there something that ...
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Save the machine state before shutdown and load it back on boot?
Is there a way, on windows 10 and on Linux distributions, to save the machine state before shutting down and load it back up on boot?
I.e. I would like the same feature as in VirtualBox when I use ...
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How to bring back "Save and Quit" feature in Firefox 63+?
I've always enabled the browser.showQuitWarning feature in Firefox so I can choose to keep the tabs or not when I close the browser
However last week my Firefox updated to the version 63 and suddenly ...
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How to decode/decipher Mozilla Firefox proprietary .jsonlz4 format? (sessionstore-backups/recovery.jsonlz4)
I'm trying to get a handle on Mozilla Firefox's proprietary file format .jsonlz4, used, for example, for sessionstore-backups/recovery.jsonlz4, but to no avail.
How do I get back my data, ...
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Chrome constantly claims that it didn't shut down correctly [duplicate]
For past month or so, from time to time (every 2-3 days) when starting up Google Chrome I see constant claims that it didn't shut down correctly.
This seems to be a false claim, because:
I always ...
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How to recover a Notepad++ lost session
I had my Notepad++ with at least 50 opened files on it, organizing all my work.
I left the computer as always hibernating overnight and surprise, this morning all was gone.
An error message popped ...
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How to restore Brave session manually?
I have a full session file with correct looking information called session-store-1 but Brave just produces my pinned tab and an empty tab. There are no other session-store files. Maybe this one has ...
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Reattaching byobu session creates (group 0)
When I re-attach a session, it somehow creates some group 0 and the name of the session gets scrambled up:
18:47:49 mcnesium@srv ~$ byobu ls
1: 1 windows (created Wed Jan 3 18:47:49 2018) [203x62] (...
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Make Windows stop restoring my session
It seems like it was about the time of the Windows 10 Fall Creators update that my computer started restoring my session every time I rebooted, restarting my web browser tabs and other programs that ...
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All tabs groups lost after updating to Firefox 57.0 Quantum
All tabs groups lost after updating to Firefox 57.0 Quantum
I need to get back not only the open tabs (within the "active" group of tabs) but the rest of them (the ones that were open in "inactive" ...
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Where does Firefox Tab Session Manager add on stores the sessions?
I have just reinstalled my firefox due to some performance issues.
I have installed the add on "Tab session Manager"
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/tab-session-manager/?src=api before and ...
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Session expiring after closing Chrome in Windows
Since last two/three weeks after closing Google Chrome in Windows, I'm getting logged out of all the websites I have logged in. Every time the session is getting closed for all websites when I reopen ...
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killall chromium-browser: no process found
I had been able to do killall chromium-browser to stop all chromium browser sessions, but not anymore:
$ killall chromium-browser
chromium-browser: no process found
That's been a while since my ...
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