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Why were all of my settings suddenly changed back to default?

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Last night I shut down my computer and this afternoon I booted it back up. When I returned after a bit to my computer after starting it up I found it had hibernated, so I restarted it again. (I have an old laptop and the sound on it only works after a restart.) Upon opening my browser I found that my saved session did not load; tabs for my extensions loaded instead as if I had just installed or updated them.

All of my settings, for both my browser and my extensions, were restored to the default settings. I don't know why this happened or how I can prevent it from happening again, and right now I'm very frustrated that I have to go through everything and set it again, because I already had it just the way I liked it and I didn't do anything that I know of to cause this!

I have already set some things back to the way they were, but haven't finished doing it for everything. Has anyone else experienced this lately or ever had this problem before?

Last night I shut down my computer and this afternoon I booted it back up. When I returned after a bit to my computer after starting it up I found it had hibernated, so I restarted it again. (I have an old laptop and the sound on it only works after a restart.) Upon opening my browser I found that my saved session did not load; tabs for my extensions loaded instead as if I had just installed or updated them. All of my settings, for both my browser and my extensions, were restored to the default settings. I don't know why this happened or how I can prevent it from happening again, and right now I'm very frustrated that I have to go through everything and set it again, because I already had it just the way I liked it and I didn't do anything that I know of to cause this! I have already set some things back to the way they were, but haven't finished doing it for everything. Has anyone else experienced this lately or ever had this problem before?

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Unfortunately that did not seem to be the problem, and then I went and accidentally deleted my profile, to boot! A stupid mistake on my part, especially because I've worked with transferring and creating new profiles before. When I saw your response I thought that was a likely answer to the problem, but it was not =\