Meadowlark
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All of a sudden my computer crashed. I rebooted and all my favorites in edge disappeared. I spent the last 3 hours restoring favorites. Thank god I save names and passwords on index cards.
COMM Computer crashed and lost 5 years of favorites, (update restored)
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energy_wave
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Back up your favorites and save to a flash drive.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
this^^^ or to the cloud. I was surprised when I got my new mac and installed chrome, poof there be my favorites, etc. All I had to do was log into my google account.
Meadowlark
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No clouds in my computer and I never thought of backing it up on a flash drive.
Meadowlark
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I just dont understand what caused it. Was I hacked or attacked by a virus?
Southside
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I love CCleaner. Has helped me out on numerous occasions, including using it to defeat Crypto-Locker.
Loretta Van Riet
Trying to hang out with the cool kids.
Has your computer updated itself from Windows 10 to 11? Laptop is restarting itself off with 2 alternating error messages: memory manager and IRQL not less or equal. Demons.
Meadowlark
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Nope still windows 10 pro
Meadowlark
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This is getting serious. Just found out all my documents and photos are gone! Yes thankfully backed up.
one4freedom
Senior Member
I recommend people load at least two different browsers and have the second one load your favorites and passwords from the first one. You have a second ready to go browser if the first one dies for some reason. I use Brave but have Firefox as a backup. I had Firefox first but like Brave better. If I boot into windows I use Brave but have edge as a backup. I also have tried Chrome also. You still need to make backups of favorites as the unused browser doesn't have the new favorites but if you don't have a working Browser it makes thing difficult.
One thing that sometimes happens is folders will somehow gets moved under another folder and you have to drag them back to where they belong. You may try going to your edge setting I think it is a gearwheel symbol on the upper left although I am not sure of that. Under that you may find a favorites or bookmarks that you can click on. Sorry for being vague but I am running Linux Mint and would have to restart in Microsoft Windows to verify this.
Meadowlark
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flash cards and index cards work for me.
Electronics die all the time.
Meadowlark
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yet all my installed software is intact. Why not just wipe delete.
Repairman-Jack
Veteran Member
3 2 1 Backup Strategy
3 Copies of data
2 different media
1 copy offsite
3 Copies of data
2 different media
1 copy offsite
You’re asking questions that you’d be unable to understand the answers to. Just make yourself a drink and let it go.
Meadowlark
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could it be due to Bak files and is there a way to restore former settings?
lostinaz
Senior Member
There are several better browsers than Edge. Many of them allow you to synch to a cloud account and restore all your browser info. Chrome, Brave, Firefox. Edge can do this, but like I said there are better tools. Sign up and get some! Computers Fail.
Drives Fail.
Phones fail.
Don't trust them.
You should have multiple backups of your data. In a cloud account (Google, Box, Dropbox, Mircosoft, etc) and a local drive. You should regularly or automatically update your data to these.
Drives Fail.
Phones fail.
Don't trust them.
You should have multiple backups of your data. In a cloud account (Google, Box, Dropbox, Mircosoft, etc) and a local drive. You should regularly or automatically update your data to these.
I use Dropbox for the (very few) critical files I need.
Meadowlark
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Update, on another site, someone told be windows 10 sometimes burps when restoring profiles and recommended rebooting. Guess what It worked. Everything is restored.
Have you tried recovering it to a day or two before the crash? I worked for an oil and gas brokerage for years and someone was always crashing something which had the ability to make my life miserable. Recovery usually fixed it but my experiences are very, very outdated.
Now, I only get on the internet with my Chromebook and all my business stuff is on a computer that is never on the internet because we have labels we designed for my products that are a work of art and we are too old and tired to replace or redo them. We do have them backed up but the alignment issues with a new computer and printer would be so overwhelming, there's over 400, that I'd just have to retire. If I have to pay something like sales tax or orders for supplies or file something on line, I do it on the Chromebook.
Now, I only get on the internet with my Chromebook and all my business stuff is on a computer that is never on the internet because we have labels we designed for my products that are a work of art and we are too old and tired to replace or redo them. We do have them backed up but the alignment issues with a new computer and printer would be so overwhelming, there's over 400, that I'd just have to retire. If I have to pay something like sales tax or orders for supplies or file something on line, I do it on the Chromebook.
Not knowing anything about how your computer is configured, you would experience similar issues if you were logged in as a different user than how you usually login.
You would likely have NO bookmarks and it would APPEAR that all your files, documents and photos would be missing. BUT likely ALL or MOST of your software would be there and work fine.
Under these circumstances, it would be likely that all your stuff is still there under a different user that you are not currently logged in as.
But as Dennis says, unless you have the skills to peel the layers of the onion to identify and resolve these issues, it would be a very painful and arduous ordeal to try to walk you, talk you, through this exercise.
ETA: Just saw your recent post and the “wrong” or “invalid” Profile situation is just a variant of what I described and would act exactly the same way.
YES. When in doubt REBOOT. It solves a multitude of issues, and it may take a series of reboots before all issues resolve.
You would likely have NO bookmarks and it would APPEAR that all your files, documents and photos would be missing. BUT likely ALL or MOST of your software would be there and work fine.
Under these circumstances, it would be likely that all your stuff is still there under a different user that you are not currently logged in as.
But as Dennis says, unless you have the skills to peel the layers of the onion to identify and resolve these issues, it would be a very painful and arduous ordeal to try to walk you, talk you, through this exercise.
ETA: Just saw your recent post and the “wrong” or “invalid” Profile situation is just a variant of what I described and would act exactly the same way.
YES. When in doubt REBOOT. It solves a multitude of issues, and it may take a series of reboots before all issues resolve.
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Griz3752
Retired, practising Curmudgeon
I'm hoghly in favour of redundant storage so I have cloud and thumb-drive plus an encrypted version in a couple of locations.
Excessive?
Damn right it is. I migrated every link, book mark/favourite etc plus my expanding library of downloads going back to my home office WINDOWS3.1-for-Work groups machines.
It was great until one day in the upgrade from WIN98 to XP-Pro I had a MB failure and in the recovery process, lost about 60% or more of my "stuff".
Learned my lesson and I resolved to never face that issue again.
EVER!
Barring a global EMP or CME of course.
Mark Armstrong
Veteran Member
Now's a good time to do that backup.
And what did you learn from this incident buckaroo…?
Meadowlark
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when in doubt reboot
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
Paid version? Kim Kommando had some recommendations recently, will have to find that newsletter now.
I have external HD's that I back up to regularly and then there's Time Machine for my apple products, that I simply do not trust... so that's two storage options I use. And for the truly important stuff I have print outs. And google cloud for the stuff I use on chrome like certain plug ins like VidIQ, a few others and my bookmarks.