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August 10, 2011 10:44 AM

Is there anyway to use Time Machine to restore a previous browsing session in Chrome?

I'm desperately trying to restore my tabs after a crash and was wondering if there was anyway to use Mac's time machine to do this. Does anyone know if and where previous session data is stored or if there might be a better way to recover my tabs?

posted by jsmith78 to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

Maybe look at the history and see if you recognize the tabs that were last open?
posted by babbyʼ); Drop table users; -- at 10:46 AM on August 10, 2011

Response by poster: unfortunately, my browsing history was cleared right before the system crashed...I was hoping there might be a way to recover the tabs another way.
posted by jsmith78 at 10:50 AM on August 10, 2011

Best answer: What you want to recover is the ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/ folder. That's what holds all the history, session, and tabs files.

I personally exclude that folder from Time Machine because it was causing TM to make multi-hundred-MB backups every hour, but presumably you haven't done that.
posted by jedicus at 11:02 AM on August 10, 2011 [3 favorites]