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I was on a site and i right clicked and selected view page info and accidently deleted the cookies in the security tab and i need to get those cookies b

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i was on a site, i right clicked, selected view page info, went to the security tab clicked view cookies and accidently removed all cookies. i need those cookies back, how do i get them back

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i was on a site, i right clicked, selected view page info, went to the security tab clicked view cookies and accidently removed all cookies. i need those cookies back, how do i get them back ''edited by a moderator''

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When cookies are deleted you really cant get them back.

See: Cookies - Information that websites store on your computer

Most cookies dont store lots of info.

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I'm not aware of any way to get deleted cookies back.

Usually logging back into a site gets back most information associated with cookies. However, some locally stored settings might be lost.


If you were carrying these same cookies for a long time, you might be able to use Windows' "previous versions" feature to recover an earlier cookie database (cookies.sqlite). But there's a high enough chance of mismatched values that this might make it worse.

Oh wait, when I search for how to do this in Windows 8, I find that it was removed: Previous versions UI removed for local volumes (Windows). Sigh.