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save state of edge
who has never done a search resulting in opening a hundred tabs and then being called to something else.
My request is simple, be able to save several tabs at once in order to reopen them all in the same state later.
Obviously without having saved them one by one or reopening them one by one.
- Elliot Kirk
Microsoft
Hi Deleted, I am sure that you are aware of the "Continue where you left off" option in the Start Up settings. You can also use Ctrl+Shift+D to save all open tabs to a specific folder in Favorites, and then later Righ-Click and select Open All (##). Lastly you can install one of the several extensions that save off specific tabs. Other than these options, we don't have a way to do this right now. In the current version of Microsoft Edge we have Tab Sweep which allows you to save of specific tabs for later use, but we have not transferred that feature over to the next version of our browser yet. If these options are insufficient, what are you looking for and can you describe your scenario in more detail so that we can try and understand the whole problem?
Thanks - Elliot
- Continue where you left off is nice but doesn't distinguish between various browser windows that you may be working with. Particularly when you have a named Edge window (e.g. "Training"), it would make sense that you can open that specific window in its last state.
Hi ... what to do when "Continue ..." does not work?
I had many named windows open with many tabs but then MS decided to do an update unannounced! (I manage 'random updating' by telling MS I have a metered Internet connection as I find all of the designed update management tools have shown failings in the past!)
However on this occasion I was using a hotel's Wi-Fi and didn't cloak it as a metered connection ... that night the computer took advantage of my oversite and performed the outstanding updates due which I discovered when I went to the computer the next morning. On opening Edge I was not offered to "Continue ..." resulting in no named windows and no tabs (why can't MS give us the option to re-open named windows, yes in researching this I discovered Workspaces but hadn't seen anything about them in 'general content' previously). Anyway using Workspaces going forward does not recover browsing tabs going back. 😞
I have preserved the "Tabs" file from the Edge - Sessions folder but unfortunately have lost the "Session" file. I can see the URLs in the Tabs file but how can I extract them and load them into a new browsing session? I'm not too bothered about the window Names but to recover them as well would be an advantage.
Can anyone please advise a way to reclaim the tabs?
The ONLY foolproof (or "Microsoftproof") way is to save each window's tabs into a distinct Favourites folder (optionally with a date against the name) and then export that folder to a local file. I'm not aware of any other supported and robust export/import capability in either collections or workspaces. BTW and on this subject of loosing critical information, be aware that significant numbers of users (including myself) have independently reported months of files being permanently lost from OneDrive files, but Microsoft appears to remain in denial because they cannot replicate the problem (which is most likely unreported drive failures and mismanaged recoveries in their data centers). DO NOT use as a OneDrive as a backup because it was never intended to be infallible and clearly isn't. Backup your OneDrive to a local drive as regularly as any other backup, and if you have foolishly assumed OneDrive (or any Cloud) content to be perpetual (it isnt) then I strongly suggest you revisit that assumption and seriously reconsider your cloud strategy.
