# Lost my history (and tabs) when updating: Any way to try to recover?

**URL:** <https://community.brave.app/t/lost-my-history-and-tabs-when-updating-any-way-to-try-to-recover/110777>\
**Category:** Brave Browser\
**Tags:** macos\
**Created:** [March 1, 2020, 4:02pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/lost-my-history-and-tabs-when-updating-any-way-to-try-to-recover/110777 "2020-03-01T16:02:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![latone](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/latone/32/29896_2.png) [@latone](https://community.brave.app/u/latone)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2020, 4:02pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/lost-my-history-and-tabs-when-updating-any-way-to-try-to-recover/110777/1 "2020-03-01T16:02:51Z")

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**Description of the issue:**  
I updated Brave, via update & relaunch, while I had 20 or so tabs open (yes, I know…unwise). Brave appeared to download and update, but didn’t relaunch. When I then tried to start Brave manually, it started, I briefly saw a browser window and the message saying “Brave didn’t shut down correctly, would you like to restore…,” and then it immediately crashed. I rebooted my machine in the blind hope it’d fix it, but it didn’t. So, I decided to simply download Brave, install it, and try running it. It worked in getting Brave to run, and it still asked me if I wanted to restore my lost tabs, but nothing was restored and I had no recent history. Is there anything I can try to recover the recent history/tabs?

**Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary): 1. 2. 3.**  
I’m not so sure I can repro it. The steps are outlined above.

**Actual Result (gifs and screenshots are welcome!):**  
Described above.

**Expected result:**  
I would not lose my recent history.

**Reproduces how often:**  
Once.

**Operating System and Brave Version(See the `About Brave` page in the main menu):**  
macOS Catalina (10.15.3 (19D76))  
Brave [Version 1.4.95 Chromium: 80.0.3987.122 (Official Build) (64-bit)]  
The previous version of Brave I was using before I updated was the most recent prior to this one.

**Additional Information:**  
I thought sync might help, but prior to this, I noticed sync wasn’t working well, and I don’t even see sync int he latest version (unless it moved and I simply didn’t find it yet).

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/brave/original/3X/1/8/182067f3480d1a5e7aea5ae3131b116ca1ef7918.png) [@system](https://community.brave.app/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 4:03pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/lost-my-history-and-tabs-when-updating-any-way-to-try-to-recover/110777/2 "2020-03-31T16:03:02Z")

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