'Add all open tabs to collection' option is gone; when you right click on a tab it used to be at the bottom? Help?

Anonymous
2023-04-17T16:09:01+00:00

Here's my screenshot:

Microsoft Edge | Tabs, address bar, and search | Windows 11

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-01-20T18:16:43+00:00

    Again, not a bug. A bug is something that is supposed to work a certain way, but doesn't. This is simply removed for personal Microsoft accounts.

    If you were to actually try to report this to MSFT support, they would not say it was a bug, because the feature doesn't even exist. Think for example of Outlook, the "new Outlook" is missing a billion features and interface elements from the normal desktop version. But you can't report that as a bug because they are missing by design.

    "Working on this" more likely means they are considering if they will add it back. Which they probably won't. Which is why we all sit here 8 months later wasting time talking about it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-01-20T20:12:33+00:00

    OK, not a bug. Imagine, I have a Hotmail account since the 90s, my Microsoft account is obviously linked to that account.
    But I'm also a longtime MS developer, I have also an 0ffice 365 company account.

    Do I have to go through the hassle of migrating all of my MS personal account services to the address linked to the pro account? Really? For such a "minor" feature? Can't believe that.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-01-20T20:21:06+00:00

    Again, my take . . . look at the legacy of the issue and the discussions.

    MS has no interest in remedying it. Perhaps in the next version of Windows . . . .

    Again, my take on it.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-01-21T00:44:46+00:00

    OK, not a bug. Imagine, I have a Hotmail account since the 90s, my Microsoft account is obviously linked to that account.
    But I'm also a longtime MS developer, I have also an 0ffice 365 company account.

    Do I have to go through the hassle of migrating all of my MS personal account services to the address linked to the pro account? Really? For such a "minor" feature? Can't believe that.

    I am in almost the identical situation as you. Yes, insanity dictates you have to go through a migration.

    You can pretty much automate this process. A significant limitation here is that your Work profile will only receive the version of the collection from your Personal profile that existed before MSFT introduced the "new Collections style" for Personal accounts. So for example if you had a Personal collection with 20 items, and then you added 5 more to that collection after they made the change, the count obviously appears as 25. However after using this migration, your Work will only receive the 20 that existed before they made the change.

    If you add more items to your Personal collections moving forward, using this process again will not retrieve them. I suspect this is because the collections are no longer cached locally, or if they are, I don't know where that is. Even if we were to locate it, the format is probably different anyway. Evidence is that previously you could use a "Copy Paste" method to move collections between profiles, now trying that just makes a Note with a full text version of the collection.

    The process is still useful for an "initial dump." You can migrate any stragglers by using the "Copy Items to Clipboard" function in Personal Collections, and then pasting that into Notepad or Word, and copying the URLs back into Edge.

    Here is the process:

    • sign into your computer using your Personal account
    • use Win + R, type %localappdata%
    • Once in this folder, navigate the folders to: Microsoft->Edge->User Data->Default->Collections
    • Copy the collectionsSQLite and collectionsSQLite-journal files to the root of your C: drive (you must be an Admin for both machine profiles to do this, if you aren't copy them to a USB stick)
    • sign out of your computer
    • sign into your computer using your Work account
    • Exit Edge if it is open
    • go to task Manager and end all Edge processes that might be there. If Windows 11, you can drop open the icon and just end the "Browser" process, it will kill everything. For Windows 10, drop it open and you will have to hunt through them killing until gone
    • use Win + R, type %localappdata%
    • Once in this folder, navigate to the folders to: Microsoft->Edge->User Data->Default->Collections
    • for safety, rename the collectionsSQLite and collectionsSQLite-journal files to collectionsSQLite-OLD and collectionsSQLite-journal-OLD
    • Copy the collectionsSQLite and collectionsSQLite-journal files you placed in the root of the C: drive (or on USB) to this folder
    • Open Edge

    The collections from your Edge Personal profile will now be integrated with your Edge Work profile. If you had collections of the same name, they may come in with (1) appended to the name.

    Good Luck!

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-01-21T00:47:07+00:00

    Again, my take . . . look at the legacy of the issue and the discussions.

    MS has no interest in remedying it. Perhaps in the next version of Windows . . . .

    Again, my take on it.

    💯

    100% I think you are right. Totally typical pattern, remove something in order to add something people don't really want, then claim the original thing wasn't popular, and deprecate it permanently.

    So sad!!

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