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I had about 15 tabs opened, and Microsoft Edge abruptly crashed.
Reopen closed tab did not work this time around, please fix. Hadn't accessed some tabs in a couple of days and I'm not going to remember which ones they were exactly in my history so the Reopen Closed Tab would be very helpful but like I said, it does not work this time around for some unknown reason.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Hello , sorry about your problems. My name is Marco and I will do my best to help you.
You can do CTRL+SHIFT+T to reopen the last opened tabs as many times as you can.
Otherwise you have no choice but to go through the history. But you can search by keyword if that helps. Or just in Recently opened tab when you press ctrl+h.
Hello AnonCat58,
When you say "Reopen closed tabs did not work this time around", did you not receive a popup to restore your tabs, or did you see the pop-up, but clicking on restore did not relaunch your tabs?
Also, were you able to reopen your tabs using K0MB suggestions?
Different user here, but one with the same problem. Yesterday my system had a bug-check crash. When I restarted and relaunched Edge, i did not get an option to restore the previous session's tabs, so I had to go through the history to find them.
My question is, where is that 'previous session' stored within Windows? Is it a folder or database accessible to end users?
... where is that 'previous session' stored within Windows? Is it a folder or database accessible to end users?
That depends on what you mean by 'accessible'. Sessions and open tabs are stored in a strange proprietary format known as SNSS. Here are instructions for using a helpful 10-year-old web app to identify tabs from a crashed session:
| <ol style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"><li><p data-prewrap="true">Close down all Edge windows. Use Task Manager to ensure that no instances of msedge.exe are running. </p></li><li><p data-prewrap="true">Copy this path:<br><strong>%localappdata%\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default</strong></p></li><li><p data-prewrap="true">Open File Explorer (Winkey + E), paste into the address bar and press <em>Enter</em>.</p></li><li><p data-prewrap="true">Open the folder called <em>Sessions</em>. Each file in that folder contains details of the current and at least one previous session.</p><ol style="margin-left: 40px"><li><p data-prewrap="true">If you see a file called <em>Tabs_{long number}</em> whose modified date corresponds to the session you lost, you're in luck. <strong>Copy the file to a safe place</strong> (e.g. your desktop). </p></li><li><p data-prewrap="true">If you don't see any file from the lost session, right-click on the <em>Sessions </em>folder and select <em>Restore previous version</em>. If you see a previous version with a likely-looking date, click <em>Restore > Restore to </em>and choose a folder to restore to, e.g. on your desktop. </p></li></ol></li><li><p data-prewrap="true">If you found a likely-looking <em>Tabs_... </em>file,</p><ol style="margin-left: 40px"><li><p data-prewrap="true">Open Edge and navigate to <a href="http://lsauer.net/chrome-session-restore/#.YFnaehCnxEY" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Chrome Session Restore / Recovery of corrupted Session files (lsauer.net)</a></p></li><li><p data-prewrap="true">Follow the instructions on the page to inject the file you saved at (4) above either by drag-and-drop or by using the <em>Choose files </em>box.</p></li><li><p data-prewrap="true">The small arrow ⏷ should reveal the tabs from the session concerned. Each entry is a link to the page, so you can open the ones you want in the current Edge session.</p></li></ol><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)" data-prewrap="true"></p></li></ol><br>Kudos and thanks to Lorenz Sauer for making this possible 🙏 |
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