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Do you synchronize your settings and history to a mail address? I've created Gmail accounts for Chrome and Firefox and just synch any new installation / reinstallation as soon as it is running. Being a Windows Insider on my VirtualBox (so I can figure out how to tell my daughter what commands to use on the WIN10 Lenovo Yoga her high school required us to buy her) has created numerous opportunities to try out re-synching. So far, I haven't lost anything (knock on vinyl covered chipboard).

I use, and highly recommend, an account with Blur (Abine Software) for encrypted passwords, credit card spoofing, and fake e-mail addresses / mail forwarding for those times that I want the data but don't want the data source following me home. Blur's app works in Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Safari, so you're covered for multiple forms of self abuse.

On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 11:41 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <turnbull.stephen.fw@example.com> wrote:

Danger, Will Robinson! Dnager! Danger! Danger!

I'm unclear on the precise circumstances, but sometime in the last 72
hours Chrome managed to delete all my history, all my bookmarks, and
everything I had save in OneTab. I believe there was an upgrade in
the meantime. It may all be out there in the cloud, but I don't
recall that I set things up to backup to the cloud, so....

A bit of Googling suggests that this is a common experience, that
Chrome does not keep backups, definitely not in any form that you can
read (which I take with a grain of salt since Chromium is open
source).

OneTab sucks even worse, apparently. It's easy enough to backup by
saving the page, but really, one shouldn't have to.

So be aware there's a warning out on all that.

If I learn different about recovery, I'll let you know. The URLs I
really care about I do save elsewhere (or they're somewhere in my mail
archives), so I'm probably not going to try too hard.

In the meantime, I've deleted Chrome and am going back to Firefox for
now.

Steve

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Re: [tlug] Chrome ate my profile