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Restoring previously closed Firefox session

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I mistakenly closed my Firefox session with 200 tabs, and opened a new tab. Then when I tried to restore the session, it only opened the most recent session, the single tab. I am not able to get back the 200 tabs. I tried various fixes which I saw on the internet, trying to use the sessions:restore backup folder, but whatever I tried did not bring back the session of the 200 tabs. Can anyone help?

I mistakenly closed my Firefox session with 200 tabs, and opened a new tab. Then when I tried to restore the session, it only opened the most recent session, the single tab. I am not able to get back the 200 tabs. I tried various fixes which I saw on the internet, trying to use the sessions:restore backup folder, but whatever I tried did not bring back the session of the 200 tabs. Can anyone help?

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Rename the largest, most recent backup file (upgrade.jsonlz4 at the bottom of your screenshot) to sessionstore.jsonlz4 and drop it into the profile folder when Firefox is not running.

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Did you have anything here? see screenshots

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If not, it sounds like you already tried this. see screenshot

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A screenshot of your sessionstore-backups folder would also be helpful. In a "Detailed" view to see the size of the files. Highlight the files in the folder before the issue happened. Also, what version of Firefox?

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I am using version 121. Here is a screenshot of my sessionstore-backups folder, which I made a copy of on my desktop before deleting the files in the original. I don't know how to highlight the files in the folder before the issue happened, but the one with the earlier times 6:18 am and the earlier dates are before the issue happened. I tried to copy/paste a couple in the original backup folder after deleting the folders that were there, and then restart Firefox, but that didn't work for me.

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Asịsa Ahọpụtara

Rename the largest, most recent backup file (upgrade.jsonlz4 at the bottom of your screenshot) to sessionstore.jsonlz4 and drop it into the profile folder when Firefox is not running.

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Ditto!!! The one from Jan 7th.

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