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Yesterday, I wanted to clean up my favorites in Edge (remove duplicates, remove obsolete links). In the midst of this, Edge closed without warning or error message. When I restarted Edge, it closed immediately. I could not select the three dots in the top right. It closed too quickly.
I found several possible solutions including tools in the Settings/Apps menu, other fixes involving removing and then reinstituting the %LocalAppData%\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe directory
None of these fixes worked.
When I restart Edge, it closes immediately.
How can I get it to work properly?
Troubleshooting browser crashes or performance issues on Windows 10
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This worked for me. Needed to add the favorites bar back, but they were all there. Seems other settings might also need to be checked.
THANK YOU!
I finally succeeded in resolving this issue by doing the following:
1 Navigate to C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data
2 Rename this folder to: User Data OLD
3 Restart EDGE. This will create a new User Data folder, and you will still have all your previous favorites etc.
This worked very well for me.
This did nothing for me
I finally succeeded in resolving this issue by doing the following:
1 Navigate to C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data
2 Rename this folder to: User Data OLD
3 Restart EDGE. This will create a new User Data folder, and you will still have all your previous favorites etc.
This worked very well for me.
Same, This has just started happening to me this morning.
Tried all the advice here, the only thing that 'worked' was renaming the 'default' file and starting the app. But then its like having a fresh install.
I don't know how to recover/restore my favorites, collections, and history. I was also using the extension Tab Session Manager and can recover all those session. Stupidly didn't have backups or restore points set up. =[
Any advice is welcomed.
I am having this same problem today. I have tried all options, but nothing worked. Does Microsoft or anyone have any other suggestions? I cannot even uninstall EDGE (so that I can reinstall afresh).