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[Coolnesstod]

I was going through some theme stuff for Chrome, as I usually change it up, I got one that seemed fairly decent and it had a lot of people who downloaded it. After getting it, chrome just up and restarted itself, getting rid of every bookmark, account saved to my login, and pretty much all my downloads. I have no idea why and I'm wondering if I can somehow get that all back? I had important things bookmarked and I don't know the exact links of them, so it kinda pisses me off.

[Coolnesstod]

Anyone? I managed to rebookmark a couple things, but I can't find the rest. any help at all would be appreciated.

[gimlet]

Using windows file search, search for a file named Bookmarks or Bookmarks.bak in a chrome-likely directory.   If you find multiples, one might be your old one - check dates and sizes.  If there's a large sized Bookmarks.bak and a small Bookmarks, maybe the bak file will have some of your bookmarks.    Unfortunately, unless you were doing backups, once you restart chrome a couple times and especially if  you add new bookmarks, all those kinds of files get overwritten pretty fast.

To find downloads, try to remember a file name or at least a portion of a file name that you downloaded, and search for that.  If you can't remember any, try to at least remember if you downloaded pdf or zip or whatever, and search for *.pdf  or *.zip and then be prepared to scroll through all the hits until you find a likely looking directory your downloads might be  in.

[bahihs]

I know this isn't helpful but I lol'ed when I read the title of this thread. I read at as two mutually exclusive things happening to you (i.e Chrome restarted itself and also you lost everything...like in a fire).

Anyway, what gimlet said. Try using the program "Everything" to search (its much better/faster than the default search). Also try look in the temporary files folder.

EDIT: Just realized how ironic my suggestion is, using Everything to find everything you lost...

[Bauglir]

It may also have done something like spin up a new user profile or something? Not sure how to actually swap between those, but it might give you something to Google.