Thegreatsuspender: Saved Sessions disappeared in session management

[drhouse]

My chrome browser and computer froze, so I was forced to do a reboot. After reloading chrome, all my Great Suspender 'saved sessions' from the last year were gone. I lost about 15-20 sessions varying from 30-100+ tabs each. I was using v6.21, is there anything I can do?

[deanoemcke]

Others have also reported this issue: https://github.com/deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender/issues/558
I'm really sorry about this. I'm not sure if there is much you can do :(
The sessions are stored in an indexedDb data store. If you know what you are doing you can try to open the background page of the extension, go into the developer console, click on the 'application' tab, and then go to the indexedDb section. Any data if it exists will be in there.

[acetriper]

experiencing the same problem atm on chrome mac,
looking for a solution to restore my lost sessions

[drhouse]

acetriper, for what it's worth, I still use Great Suspender to free up memory, but for backups I started using an addon called Session Buddy, I set it to show the 50 most recent sessions and so far it hasn't lost any of the ones I saved during the last 6 months, even after multiple crashes - most importantly, I routinely use its manual 'Back Up' button that saves all sessions to a single file, so even if everything goes wrong, loading this file will perfectly restore everything.

[deanoemcke]

Related issue: #659
This possibly has something to do with the extension getting corrupted? https://github.com/deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender/issues/551

[Timmate]

Just experienced the same issue, lost all my recent and saved sessions, everything is gone. Found nothing in IndexedDB. Don't have a clue what went wrong, no sudden crash or shutdown took place, everything was as usual. Is there anything I can do? Thank you.

System specs:
OS: Arch Linux (64 bit)
Browser: Chromium v85.0.4183.121
The Great Suspender: v7.1.6

[dm17]

Same... Great suspender deleted all the sessions from session buddy... WTF! This is at least the 15th time a similar bug has deleted my sessions in the last decade in Firefox & Chromium...
Time to take things into my own hands and stop trusting these fake experts with their opinions on how browsers should work.

[nfultz]

IndexedDB is unfortunately managed as a shared resource, so if another website / extension uses up your storage quota, other things can be evicted. I once had a GoTo meeting page that caused all my tabs to be deleted. It's bad design in Chrome.

[dm17]

IndexedDB is unfortunately managed as a shared resource, so if another website / extension uses up your storage quota, other things can be evicted. I once had a GoTo meeting page that caused all my tabs to be deleted. It's bad design in Chrome.

Absolutely insane. Let's blame developers in general. They all gloat about contributing to open source, but then how many of them even wanna use their own product after they built it? Let's fork chromium from ungoogled-chromium!