Brave Lost all Tabs, History, Bookmarks on windows 11

Brave Browser Desktop Support
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Description of the issue:
How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. Every start

Expected result: Show tabs, bookmarks, history

Brave Version( check About Brave): 1.85.111

Additional Information: This is the worst, unless you can provide a recovery method, 2 years of using Brave, history, boomarks, even the stored tabs on startup as well as clickable on screen tabs all gone.

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Have you checked that they are not stored in a different profile to the one that you are using in the browser. This happened to me a few days back and then I realised that the browser was using ‘default’ browser and all of my saved settings etc were in the ‘work’ profile.

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I have just gotten this same issue, all my tabs are gone.

And it wants me to select Work usage and two other selections when I start it .. was there an update?

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Yes there has been an update. You need to find the profile that contains all of the saved information. All of mine was in ‘work’. Don’t ask me why.

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Thank you that helped.. was the same here.. my workflow completely went to shreds because of this lol.. lifesaver here tyvm!!

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Where Brave Browser Profiles Are Located

With Brave Browser running, open a New Window and go to: brave://version

Scroll down to Profile Path: You should see, for

Linux OS - usually but not always:

/home/[username]/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/[profile_folder_name]

MacOS: /Users/[username]/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/[profile_folder_name]

Windows OS: C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\[profile_folder_name]

The actual Profile folder names for [profile_folder_name] would be:

  • Default
  • Profile 1
  • Profile 2
  • Profile n [where n is the next increment: 3, 4, . . . etc.]

Upon the original installation and setup of Brave Browser (“BB”):

The 1st BB User Profile is named Profile 1 and its data is maintained within the folder named Default:

  • MacOS: /Users/[username]/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default
  • Windows OS: C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default

When proceeding with the creation of additional BB User Profiles:

The 2nd BB User Profile name will be Profile 2 and its data will be maintained within the folder named Profile 1:

  • MacOS: /Users/[username]/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Profile 1
  • Windows OS: C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Profile 1

The 3rd BB User Profile name will be Profile 3 and its data will be maintained within the folder named Profile 2:

  • MacOS: /Users/[username]/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Profile 2
  • Windows OS: C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Profile 2

Repeating the pattern of BB User Profile creations:

  • Actual 1st BB User Profile data is in folder named Default
  • Actual 2nd BB User Profile data is in folder named Profile 1
  • Actual 3rd BB User Profile data is in folder named Profile 2
  • Actual 4th BB User Profile data is in folder named Profile 3

Renaming the BB User Profile name(s) . . . DOES NOT CHANGE the folder names and structure:

  • Renaming 1st BB User Profile name, from Profile 1 to Bob8 ← still uses folder named Default
  • Renaming 2nd BB User Profile name, from Profile 2 to Hope ← still uses folder named Profile 1
  • Renaming 3rd BB User Profile name, from Profile 3 to Emma ← still uses folder named Profile 2
  • Renaming 4th BB User Profile name, from Profile 4 to Work ← still uses folder named Profile 3