How can I get Edge to restore all the tabs I had open last session?

Hi Tareq,

Really, really appreciate the reply! 😀.

I must admit, your initial short reply, in bold 😁 really did tee me off (just a tad, as you might possibly have been able to tell by my reply 🤣) - I obviously took it the wrong way, I am so glad you have come back to me, and I can now see you are an absolutely fine guy, so I apologise if my reply appeared a little bit stroppy 😀.

I actually also posted the solution on several other Microsoft question threads about tabs being lost, just to try and help as many people as I could, and, one guy, Dan I think, replied that it unfortunately hadn't helped him, but I felt I could reply and ask him exactly what part of the solution hadn't worked, as I desperately wanted to know exactly why it hadn't worked as I just couldn't understand why it wouldn't. He replied that my solution hadn't failed at all, the problem was his computer had actually completely crashed, as opposed to him having just forgotten to press the "Restore tabs" button (or it not appearing for him to press), so, when he entered my command prompt, he found that the session and tab file record page that it leads to was completely blank from the crash, therefore his computer had completely lost the session and tab files which held his lost tabs, so it was obviously impossible for him to just delete the newer ones and leave his old ones, then simply restart edge to restore his tabs, as there were no files showing at all on the page to do this. Selfishly!!, this reply made me hugely glad I had asked him exactly what he had done, or I would have been thinking there was some problem with my solution, so I was a very happy Bunny! (Dan wasn't though, of course, bless him!😀).

I did want to ask you as well, if there was any particular part of the solution you had a problem with, but, based on my misreading of your first reply, I thought you might rip me a new one if I dared ask 🤣🤣😆😆, so I thought I would leave that.

Now I'm a bit less scared😁😁, could I just ask you (just in case I can tweak my answer to suit different circumstances in the way in which people lose their tabs). When you tested it, was it by having a whole load of tabs open, then just turning your computer off (or pressing restart), with them all still open - that is always how I turn my computer off believe it or not, and probably not the right way to do it, and different to how other people do it I guess? Then turned your computer back on again, opened Edge, and you just had one window appear? With just the normal Bing search page tab and no other tabs showing and just the restore message?, then you just clicked on the + sign at the end to open a new tab, which I think gets rid of the restore message?, then just ran my command prompt, did you then get up the page with the two session and two tab files showing? but then BEFORE (very important! 😁), deleting any of the files at all on that page, first shut edge with Task manager, and only THEN, went back to the page and left only the top (and therefore oldest I believe), Session file open, deleting any others showing, but also leaving only the top one of the Tab files showing, deleting all other Tab files, then you just restarted Edge?

Sorry to be a pain, but I just wanted to be sure I had explained it to everyone correctly and there is not some phrasing I have done which makes people do it in some other way or some slightly different order I hadn't intended, causing it to fail (such as other people turning their computers off or back on in different ways to how I do it).

Anyways, thanks so much again for your reply, it really was greatly appreciated!!

Thank you for your feedback. I tried the process you explained in detail several times to no avail. I never had my previous tabs back.

I like to keep my answers or comments short.

Thanks,

Tareq

the edge HUNG and shut down

on restart...

for some reason the HISTORY and RECENTLY CLOSED TABS both show blank

how do I get all my 8 Tabs back?

Hi Tareq,

I see that you replied just afew hours after I made my post, but that you made another post on 5/11, two weeks ago about losing tabs. So, you obviously have not just had this problem in the few hours since I made this post, so how can you possibly know that it doesn't work?, unless you have been losing your tabs every few hours since 5/11?

OR

Are you not actually talking about my solution to lost tabs at all, which 100% definitely DOES work! I have 300+ tabs and the 8 windows they are in, which I totally lost, sitting in front of me now as I speak, fully recovered and working absolutely perfectly. Are you in fact actually only talking about the very last section of my post, which has nothing at all to do with my solution to lost tabs, and is just giving a little additional tip telling people how to add another setting on Edge so your tabs reappear automatically in future whenever you turn your computer off then restart it without having to remember to click on the restore box which appears? Is that what you're saying "doesn't work at all"?? As I notice you complain about this not happening on your computer in your 5/11 post. If so I will be very happy to go into more detail about how exactly you set that setting.

Please clarify, or remove your above post saying my solution to recover lost tabs doesn't work, in case someone looks at your reply and actually thinks it doesn't, and permanently loses their tabs as a result - it works perfectly.

Many thanks Tareq.

That never worked at all