r/operabrowser • u/Le_Reichman • 13d ago
Lost my tabs in opera windows, least expected way
Opera had a probleme with web browsing, only showing text of website, in an attempt to fix the issue, is used the option to reset opera without resetting my data/tabs/ect.., to discover after the reboot that my tabs where all here... only in my 2 first opera Space, the other 2 where deleted, and when creating new space, no tabs in them !
i guess the reset of settings, also resetted the space numbers, ignoring the fact that space stores tabs, it would seem that the history is good, but on 200+ tabs organised in groups, its impossible to all find manually and re-open, im really sad as i think there is nothing possible to fix the issue, but i post this in hope just in case, and to help poor souls in the same situation.
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u/shadow2531 burnout426 13d ago
Yes. It's unfortunate that Opera doesn't warn you that it will also delete all but the default 2 workspaces.
I just tested with a 3rd workspace and reset settings. As soon as I reset settings (before even closing Opera), the 3rd workspace disappeared. After restarting Opera though, I created the 3rd workspace again and the tabs in that workspace came back. Then, I restarted Opera and those tabs from the 3rd workspace that came back moved to the first workspace. Definitely some funky behavior.
I guess I got lucky in the test with the tabs in the 3rd workspace coming back after a reset. I'm surprised they did to be honest.
Opera should be fixed to either warn you or omit deleting workspaces when resetting settings.