My collections have disappeared, how do I recover them? Where is the "Get Started" button for Collections?

AAAAAND... what if collections is NOT there?

Daniel - THANK YOU!!!! After losing my entire Collection and searching and searching how to recover, I found your very detailed steps, I followed them and now have my Collection back!! You are the only one who gave such a detailed explanation, Not even Microsoft staff explained it a 1/4 well as you did.

Olivia MS MOD with her one phrase answers was as cryptic as it gets = HORRIBLE. Thanks for nothing MS.

MS should pay Daniel Stewart1 for supporting their customers. BRAVO Daniel!!

Here's what I did:

-I browsed to: edge://sync-internals/

-Located "collections" at the bottom and saw my number of collections at 128.

-I clicked the three dots and created a new profile in edge browser and it generated as "profile2" (yours may different, like profile3)

-Went to C:\users\*****\AppData\Local\microsoft\edge\userdata\default\ in File Explorer

-Closed the browser

-Copied the "Collections" folder within that default folder

-Pasted the "Collections" folder into "profile2" of "userdata" (C:\users\*****\AppData\Local\microsoft\edge\userdata)

-Opened the Edge browser

-I clicked the three dots again and opened my original profile and clicked the settings wheel and selected "sign out" on the next page that came up.

-I checked "clear favorites, history, passwords..... from this device". Finished the prompt and signed out.

-This is the most important step: I went back to the home page of the browser in my newly created profile "profile2", clicked the three dots again and signed in with my original profile's credentials (email and password) while in "profile2".
-The browser did a full sync (took a minute) and kept the pasted collections from "profile2" which then all magically became my new original profile.

My collections are now synced across all of my devices, I've confirmed.

I've also saved the original "Collections" folder in safe place in case this happens ever again.

Daniel Stewart

Hi, I have the same problem: on one computer it says " content blocked", on this computer the collections are empty but i get the list below, but none of the 80 collections are visible.
If I had known this could happen, never ever had I switched to Edge or to this "collection" system which is a total unreliable thing, I need them back

One can only conclude this: NEVER EVER use "collections" again. They don"t get synced over devices in a proper way, it is as if one device (with no collections) becomes the master and all devices sync to ... nothing...