[BUG] history and current session lost after crash

hello

when your pc crashes (reproduce this by forcefully shutting down your pc), while opera is opened, after reboot the following information will be lost:

1) tabs you had opened at the time of the crash
2) latest history (week ago or more)

I think opera should prioritize the solution of data loss problems

thanks

Cannot reproduce here, but it would not be a bug if it did happen.
A crash might prevent Opera from writing some files. It is clearly not feasible to write config files every 5 seconds just in case Opera might crash sometime once in a blue moon.

Originally posted by Pesala:

A crash might prevent Opera from writing some files. It is clearly not feasible to write config files every 5 seconds just in case Opera might crash sometime once in a blue moon.

why not? many programs do so (eg. MS Word, Emeditor, etc)

but I think it is a bug for another reason: it deletes previously saved history and previously saved session, in other words it nulls this data, while it should, if not save the latest version of that data, at least preserve the previously saved version of that data

i'm experiencing this same problem; it's happened about 3 times in the last week. the previous session will be completely lost, and all history will be deleted. oddly enough, both my bookmarks and log-ins for sites are remembered. it's starting to get rather annoying :\

This just fucking happened to me. This should be a top priority; it is inexcusable.

It's one thing if I just lose my session -- I can go through my history to get all the pages I want. But when it deletes all the relevant history, that's just fucking ridiculous. Come on, I don't know all of the 50 pages I had up -- I expect my browser to keep track of that for me.

Guess I'll be using Chromium on any computer that has even the slightest chance of crashing, because Opera doesn't have my back.

Piss poor, Opera. Get your shit together.

Adding my hat to this thread; it keeps happening and is VERY annoying.

I lose all my history and all my open tabs. I'm screwed.

Opera didn't use to do this. This computer crashes every now and then, and opera used to be good at preserving my open tabs and history (thank God, it was one of the good things about opera).
Then some new version came out, and it fails at preserving this.

Now i lose everything, like once a week. Might as well use chrome then, right?

I'm going to 1-up this cause it's been happening to me a bunch. Seems that flash and the opera browser don't work together in my case.

This happened the 2nd time now, and reading this and others threads it seems to be a known problem for ages...
screw you opera... after 10 years I'm done with you now.

I just had this for the ±5th time in a year.
My laptop occasionally crashes because the hard disk has a hick-up (gets into some endless cycle loop, it's not broken or corrupted) that makes the system crash. Twice a month or so. Sucks, but what can you do. In most cases Opera restores perfectly, and it has never damaged any other file whatsoever, but sometimes Opera really loses all of it.
It's like Opera was in the middle of writing the session data (and ALL history, but why) into a file, which it doesn't have any sort back-up of.
The file gets corrupt or deleted for some reason and Opera starts like nothing is missing. Doesn't even say "sorry, we lost all your tabs and history, but a possible system crash caused data to be lost". Nope, nothing.

It would be "appreciated" if this will be looked into since I've lost 25 tabs again just now..., but unlike other users on this forum I don't see why I should be angry at a company that provides me free software of insanely good quality, and even with these bugs beats the hell out of all other browsers.

Also, off topic: Why is "remember login" on my.opera.com not working? I have re log in every time I open this site, more than once a month. I expect these things to be permanent or at least a year long.

Oh my!

This adds my same complain here. I don't usually get this crash problem on Opera. But it hurts the most when you have dozens of pages stored on it! I have accumulated for about 30+ pages and I lost them all at once! I use Opera as the main browser on all my computers and portable machines. Please, plase, take this bugfix to your next release.

Originally posted by shajirr:

Happened to me, lost around 30-40 tabs.
So Opera deletes your session and history after crash, and has no extensions that can automatically backup sessions...
I'm moving to other browsers until this gets fixed.
It's 2012, and Opera still looses sessions after crash? And has no auto-backup? Seriously?

You can write a simple backup script that saves your autosave.win file somewhere. Opera does make a backup of the session file, so there are always 2 of them available, but for some reason the files both get lost in a crash when Opera is writing them. That is a serious bug, because the whole idea behind having 2 files is that you should only be accessing one at the time and therefor never destroy it while writing the other.
This happened to me too again this week, also losing about 40 tabs. The most annoying part is that the urls can't be found anywhere. History is also empty.
For me it's not a reason to ditch Opera. Shit happens, and you can also blame the crash (unless Opera causes the crash, which shouldn't destroy the files). In my case it's a hard disk that stops spinning every two weeks or so
The one real reason to ditch Opera is because it's just damn slow compared to other browsers today on heavy javascript/big-DOM pages like facebook. It's really, really slow. But that's another issue.

Same thing just happened to me. Lost pins and tabs. Someone mentioned writing a script, but I have absolutely no idea how to do that.

Originally posted by bkstrvl:

Same thing just happened to me. Lost pins and tabs. Someone mentioned writing a script, but I have absolutely no idea how to do that.

Well I suppose you could just use any backup application for a periodic backup of the file.
Go to Opera:about to check where your "saved sessions" folder is, and copy that one with the backup tool. You can use SyncBack SE, Dirsync or Allway Sync, or any other to your liking.

Originally posted by tielenaar:

Originally posted by bkstrvl:

Same thing just happened to me. Lost pins and tabs. Someone mentioned writing a script, but I have absolutely no idea how to do that.

Well I suppose you could just use any backup application for a periodic backup of the file.
Go to Opera:about to check where your "saved sessions" folder is, and copy that one with the backup tool. You can use SyncBack SE, Dirsync or Allway Sync, or any other to your liking.

Thanks for that suggestion (I should have thought of that)!! I think I have found a file backup/sync program for a mac and it looks like it's doing the job.

Hi Opera listeners :-)
Something similar happen to me but maybe also sth more:
My computer and Opera works usually very stable but today bluescreened due to some DVD software. I had around 1280px of tabs in Opera ;-)
As Opera is default browser Windows opened in it it's repair suggestions. Usually this is just new tab but this time all my tabs gone.
I've checked history to find my tabs but something strange happened. "Today" tab didn't contain today's tabs neither was empty - there were sites I've visited many months ago!
Marcin
Opera 12.02 PL, Windows XP Pro SP3 EN.

Still not fixed?

This didn't happen on old version of opera (7,8,9,10). I think it's definitely a bug since the bak is also nullified. One reason i chose Opera over other browsers was it could restore my browsing session after power loss. Well, now this reason is gone.