I accidentally closed an instance of Opera with multiple tabs. There was another window with a couple of tabs running.

I have closed and restarted Opera in the hope it will retrieve the windows at startup (it usually asks if I want to continue from last time).

Is there a way I can retrieve my closed window with all the tabs? I cannot see them in the history either, probably because when I switched on my PC the Internet connection was down and the pages didn't load.

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Opera periodically saves a backup of your session between restarts. If you are quick enough, you can retrieve the backup before it is overwritten.

On Windows, have a look at "%APPDATA%\Opera\Opera\sessions\". If you are using a different installation directory or you are on a different operating system, you will have to find the your profile path. Type "opera:about" into your address bar.

You should have an "autosave.win" and an "autosave.win.bak" in the "sessions" folder.

Copy both files, and back them up somewhere.

Now, return to "%APPDATA%\Opera\Opera\sessions\", rename "autosave.win" to "autosave0.win.bak" and "autosave.win.bak" to "autosave.win".

Finally, re-open Opera.

Remember, next time, you should carefully backup your sessions using "Opera Menu > Tabs and Windows > Sessions > Save This Session..." or "Right click inside of the Bookmarks Manager > Bookmark All Open Pages".

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Have a look at this page:

Link: http://www.opera.com/browser/tips/?feature=trash

It might be what you are looking for?

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Trash is cleared on a closed window. – Gnoupi May 1 '10 at 13:59
Thanks but this only opens the closed tabs on the same page, while you are still on the same session, not if you have restarted. I want to open a window with all the tabs that where on it, on my previous session. Are these saved in a file or are they lost forever? – Kostas May 1 '10 at 15:46
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If autosave.win.bak doesn't contain your session either, try to recover as soon as possible the most recent (and biggest) autosave.win in ..\Opera\Opera\sessions directory using an undelete program (e.g. Recuva).

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