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History wiped - gone - possiblly due to syncing. Scared to boot any other computer so it doesn't happen again?????????????

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mkeurope
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Emergency!!! I just arrived home from a trip, and on my primary pc, I had saved say 50 tabs over a number of years. I was/am interested in syncing, but I had taken no known actionable steps to do so - but when I arrived home, my primary pc did not open the previous session. I lost everything. Spent hours trying to recover the previous session. Then, I simply decided to go back seven days and restore those tabs. Eight Hundred(!!!!!) tabs were restored, from what appears to be from each of my computers. I am now deleting the 750 unnecessary & repetitive tabs (again, on my primary computer), I am now *scared to death* to boot any of my other computers and have all of my history wiped again. WTF!!!??? Thank you very much!!!

Emergency!!! I just arrived home from a trip, and on my primary pc, I had saved say 50 tabs over a number of years. I was/am interested in syncing, but I had taken no known actionable steps to do so - but when I arrived home, my primary pc did not open the previous session. I lost everything. Spent hours trying to recover the previous session. Then, I simply decided to go back seven days and restore those tabs. Eight Hundred(!!!!!) tabs were restored, from what appears to be from each of my computers. I am now deleting the 750 unnecessary & repetitive tabs (again, on my primary computer), I am now *scared to death* to boot any of my other computers and have all of my history wiped again. WTF!!!??? Thank you very much!!!

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mkeurope
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And I am not being hyperbolic by stating that this is an emergency, because on Monday - if not earlier - I will be forced to boot my work computer and I do not want to lose everything again forever (as in, filtering through 800 tabs again), and during this process, I did lose some tabs.

mkeurope
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Sorry to keep posting, but I just remembered that when I arrived home and booted my main computer. If Firefox launched, there was just one tab - *but* what was really odd is that my chrome browser had doubled - as in it was replicated - as in I had two identical Chrome Windows open at the same time with the same tabs open at the same time. I hadn't seen anything like it.

I swear that I just arrived home and booted my main computer that I had shut down for safety during my absence. Lenovo or Windows required an update immediately after the boot - the type of update that I encounter too often for my taste (god, I miss XP) - so since I hadn't engaged any project, I proceeded with the reboot.

It was just a normal day - but I have now spent six, seven or eight hours trying to determine what happened.

Thanks again!!!

ps: I run Nord and Malwarebytes and Aura to boot - and I practice good online hygiene - so I doubt that I had experienced some kind of breach.