How To Sort

[James Hiddle]

I had to restore my session buddy collection but now the oldest collections are now on top and the newest collections are down on the bottom. I have over 9200 collections so scrolling down is not an option. How do I sort or get my newest collections back on top?

[Session Buddy Support]

For backup purposes, use Backup/Restore going forward. This preserves collection dates and other metadata.

You can try asking AI to reverse the order of the collections in the export file or send the export file to sup...@sessionbuddy.com and we'll take care of it for you.

Hans

On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM James Hiddle <jahi...@gmail.com> wrote:

I had to restore my session buddy collection but now the oldest collections are now on top and the newest collections are down on the bottom. I have over 9200 collections so scrolling down is not an option. How do I sort or get my newest collections back on top?

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[James Hiddle]

I sent an email to support.

[James Hiddle]

Once again I had to reload my backup session buddy collection and once again it reset the bottom collections to the top on top if that it didn't load my pinned collections. It seems over the last few months SB has gotten bad and I'm getting angry because it seems pointless to save collections now.

[Session Buddy Support]

As mentioned in our previous response, use Backup/Restore to preserve collection dates and other metadata, including pinned states. You are trying to either restore an export file or import a backup file, which isn't going to give you the results you're looking for.

> It seems over the last few months SB has gotten bad

Can you be more specific? We'd love to hear more about your experience so we can focus our development efforts accordingly.

Cheers,

Hans

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[James Hiddle]

Sometimes collections disappear without warning. I don't know if I'm accidentally deleting them or if it's a bug but that is the reason why I have to restore my collections. Is there a way to add some sort of locking feature to make sure a collection doesn't get deleted? Also can you add a way to scroll to the bottom of the collections for those that have good side collections?

And is there a way I can reverse the order of my collections since the most recent ones are now on the bottom?

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[Session Buddy Support]

>  collections disappear without warning

Although rare, browsers have been known to wipe extension data due to disk space pressure, browser bugs, disk cleaners, and other factors. It's why we added an auto-backup feature in v4.1 (released last October). You can view the status of this backup and restore it by clicking on the gear menu, then "Restore", then selecting the "From local backup" tab, if present.

If extension data wipes are a repeating problem for you, make sure you're running the latest version of Chrome.

> scroll to the bottom of the collections for those that have good side collections?

Not sure what you mean by "good side collections", but collection tiles are lazy-loaded by default. You can change this to load all collections by opting in to the following experiment: chrome-extension://edacconmaakjimmfgnblocblbcdcpbko/experiments.html#collectionFetchAll

This way you can easily scroll to the oldest collection immediately after Session Buddy loads. Beware though that this experiment will slow initial SB tab loads.

> reverse the order of collections

Not (yet) within the app.

It's unclear whether you have a backup file or an export file. If the former, simply delete your collections and bring them back into Session Buddy, this time using Restore instead of Import. If it's the latter, you can add dates to the collections in the file to effectively reverse their order. I can provide additional guidance if this is the case.

Hans

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[James Hiddle]

I meant god size. That was a typo.

How do you add dates to collections?

[Session Buddy Support]

If you used Export you'll need to add a "created" property to each collection by editing the export file in a text editor.

You can get a baseline value for the current time by executing (new Date()).toJSON() in the console, then copy/paste that value to a "created" property on each collection (from top to bottom), decrementing the second or minute on each. Collections will display by created time descending (most recent at top) once restored.

So for example: 

"collections": [
    {
      "created": "2025-10-16T04:14:19.395Z",
      "title": "test collection 1",

 .. etc 

You can try tasking AI to automate this for you. Others have reported favorable results with this approach.

Finally, don't forget to use Backup/Restore as previously recommended to avoid having to jump through these hoops going forward.

Hans

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