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My sessionstore-backup folders only goes back a couple of days - can I recover from something further back somehow?

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blizeh
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Hi, I'm trying to recover an old session with 2k+ tabs, but I only have two recovery files (from today) and one previous.jsonlz4 from a couple of days ago.

Is there anyway to restore from before then, or is the session (and the tabs) completely lost?

Thank you

Hi, I'm trying to recover an old session with 2k+ tabs, but I only have two recovery files (from today) and one previous.jsonlz4 from a couple of days ago. Is there anyway to restore from before then, or is the session (and the tabs) completely lost? Thank you

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cor-el
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Did you look at a recent upgrade.jsonlz4 file in the sessionstore-backups folder to see if that is of use ?

You can look at this tool to inspect a compressed sessionstore file.

Probably the only option would be an older copy of sessionstore.jsonlz4. I don't know if Windows stores this file as part of a System Restore point.

You can look at a utility to browse System Restore points.

blizeh
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Thanks so much! That's really helpful, but unfortunately I don't have an upgrade.jsonlz4 file else that would've been ideal.... I also don't have system restore enabled in Windows, argh! :)