How to restore a session in Microsoft Edge

Question

I use the Windows 10 operating system, and yesterday I installed the latest version of update 1511. Everything works fine, except that I lost all open tabs in the Microsoft Edge browser. Is there a chance to restore them?

If I go: C: \ Users \ currentuser \ AppData \ Local \ Packages \ Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe \ AC \ MicrosoftEdge \ User \ Default \ Recovery \ Active,

I see that there is a recovery storage file (.dat) which should be (according to timestamp) correct for me. But I do not know how to use it.

Thanks so much for your answers.

Regards, Clement

Answer 1

In the settings menu in the "Open with" section, it is possible to select "Previous Pages" when opening Edge. Other than that, I'm not sure.

Answer 2

• Copy all files from C: \ Users \ CurrentUser \ AppData \ Local \ Packages \ Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe \ AC \ MicrosoftEdge \ User \ Default \ Recovery \ Active to another folder
• Delete all files from C: \ Users \ CurrentUser \ AppData \ Local \ Packages \ Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe \ AC \ MicrosoftEdge \ User \ Default \ Recovery \ Active
• Open face
• Press Ctrl + T, for example. 5 times, open 5 tabs
• Close face
• In the folder C: \ Users \ CurrentUser \ AppData \ Local \ Packages \ Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe \ AC \ MicrosoftEdge \ User \ Default \ Recovery \ Active you can see 5 new files, for example. {0BBFA40A-D703-11E5-9C10-C86000138E00} .dat ... {0BBFA406-D703-11E5-9C10-C86000138E00} .dat and 1 RecoveryStore file. {0BBFA404-D703-11E5-9C10-C86000138E00} .dat
• Replace these 5 files with the first 5 files from the par.1 folder, keeping the new name, which is important! for example {0BBFA40A-D703-11E5-9C10-C86000138E00} .dat ... {0BBFA406-D703-11E5-9C10-C86000138E00} .dat
• Open face

• Enjoy;)

• Repeat .2-9 for the next 5 files ...

Answer 3

To be precise and keep it simple, although Gleb has issued pretty good instructions, there is an easier way to do this.

If you have files in the folder C:\Users\currentuser\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\AC\MicrosoftEdge\User\Default\Recovery\Active , you do not need to copy delete or something else with this.

Just open Edge, if not already (you already did this when you noticed that the session was gone, so you have enough ...), open one new tab and close the edge. Check the folder for the file named RecoveryStore. {.... and you will notice that there are two files. You need to have a new date (aka the date you opened the browser to get a bad session), and the other will be older and most likely will be the same as all .dat files inside.

Copy the file name NEWER RecoveryStore. {, delete the file and paste it into the old RecoveryStore file. {, so your old one will replace the new one, but keep the new name. Just launch Edge and it will load all your tabs and windows.

When there are files in the Active folder and the session is not being restored, it means that it did not delete the session, it just lost the name of the RecoveryStore pointer, so it created a new ...

Answer 4

I just want to expand / improve Gleb Derzky, answer a little, just in case there are a lot of tabs (in my case 32).

For step 4, this obviously also works if you open the appropriate number of tabs - 32 for me.

Just to clarify step 7: you must rename each of the old, backup files to one of the newly created ones. You can use cmd dir and rename commands for this.

7a) In the open explorer window %localappdata%\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\AC\MicrosoftEdge\User\Default\Recovery\Active press CTRL + L or F4 to go to the folder line

7b) type cmd and press ENTER to open cmd in this directory

7c) enter dir /b to print all the file names in this directory and copy them

7d) repeat the same (7a-7c) for your backup

.7e) open a table calculation program (for example, Excel) and insert “output from new tabs” in column A first, and then “output from backup folder” into B

7f) you now have a list of 32 (or your number) rows containing the generated, new and backup copies of old tab files in columns A and B

7g) copy code ="rename "&A1&" "&B1 to cell C1

7h) copy C1 to cells from C2 to C32 (or your quantity). Excel automatically changes links.

7i) you have all rename commands for all files in your backup folder. Just copy the entire column C and paste it into the cmd backup folder. All files are renamed correctly.

7j) ( task -) kill your Edge and drag the backup back to the appdata folder. Replace everything.

continue from step 8) ;-)

(you don't need 10 here)

Hope this helps excessive tab users like me. Unfortunately, this answer brand did not work for me.

Sorry for the links between comments and answers, but you can read it much better here.

Answer 5

IDEA: Before you try any of this, and if you accidentally open a new browser session, before closing it, go to the history and see if you can find the previous pages that you lost. If you have more than 10 pages, and if they are buried in the history of your browser, then it is better to try any of the methods described above.

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This is what I did. My browser session crashed. I was forced to close the session through the task manager (CTRL + SHIFT + ESC). Then:

1. I went to the ACTIVE folder and made a copy of this folder elsewhere, say Documents .
2. Now I opened EDGE and opened as many tabs as there are files in your ACTIVE folder (minus 1 -> do not count recovery file)
3. Now do not close the edges by clicking on x in the window. Instead, close it through the task manager
4. Now the tedious part is to copy the file name of this NEW ACTIVE folder to the OLD ACTIVE folder. Make this file per file.
5. You also need to copy the recovery...xyz.dat from the NEW folder to the OLD folder

Make sure that the newly renamed files from the OLD ACTIVE folder are moved to the ACTIVE folder. Launch EDGE and it should work.

Tested on Windows 10 x64.

NOTE: I had [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\MicrosoftEdge\Recovery] "AutoRecover"=dword:00000000 settings and settings>> load previous page in the EDGE browser, and this had no effect .

REMARK . The problem that I encountered while restoring my files is that every time I close EDGE by pressing x, it erases all the files in my ACTIVE folder. Covering EDGE by force, I was able to apply this trick. -Kf

Answer 6

For me, this article was helpful:
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2015/09/regaining-control-over-edge/
I installed the registry key (as described in the link above):

To restore Edge with "Previous Pages" or better put it, to have it again, follow the behavior specified in the "Settings" section, you must set this value to 0, as shown below:

 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\MicrosoftEdge\Recovery] "AutoRecover"=dword:00000000