Chrome issues and corrupted USB stick...

[Scott Vargovich]

Hi there,

I'm having 2 issues with Chrome.  I'm running google-chrome-stable on Arco Linux (derivative of Arch).  Every time I open it, an error pops up that Chrome hasn't shut down properly and I have to click a button to restore my default tabs.  I also will get a window popping up stating that I haven't emptied my browsing history in a long time and that I have 600+ records.  I dump cache, cookies, and history on a regular basis so this shouldn't be happening.

A friend is sending me a USB stick with a NTFS file system that Windows won't open.  It's giving no error so I don't know whether the corruption is in the partition or the data itself.  I haven't tried to recover data on a corrupted NTFS file system in a long time.  Could I get some suggestions of programs that would resurrect the data on it without extensive gymnastics?

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[Jeremiah Bess]

My initial thought on the Chrome shutdown error is to simply rename your profile folder, and start up Chrome again. Then you can import everything back in like bookmarks and install your extensions. /home/<username>/.config/google-chrome/default

If that doesn't work, here's some other options:

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/3296214?hl=en&visit_id=637028061293658808-1319618009&rd=1

https://forums.techguy.org/threads/solved-google-chrome-didnt-shut-down-correctly-error-restore-session-bug-please-he.1118647/#post-8916249

As for the badgering about browsing history, this doesn't seem like a Chrome feature I've ever seen or heard of, and is likely caused by an add-on you have. Browsers don't care about how much cache, history, or bookmarks you have. It's all data in a sqlite DB file on your hard drive.

With regards to the NTFS partition, it's possible the partition table is corrupted, but flash memory doesn't last for ever either so it could be a hardware issue. My first suggestion would be to see if a Windows machine can repair the drive. Start > Disk Management. See if the drive or a partition on that drive is showing. If no, right-click, go to Properties, Tools, Error Checking, and click Check. If the drive isn't detected at all, try moving it to a Linux system, which dmesg would give a better idea of any issues with it. If you can see the drive there and can mount it, you can recover the data and try re-formatting the drive and putting the files back.

Beyond that, I don't know if any tools you could use to recover data from the drive. If you find any good ones, please let us know so we can bookmark it for future reference.

Jeremiah Bess

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[John E1]

I would look for a temp hidden file causing the Chrome error and delete it.

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