Not saving new sessions

[Sunil Gupta]

Hi. Just wondering if others are seeing this. When I open Session Buddy, I see my current session ("Changed a few seconds ago"). I also see my previous sessions, but the most recent one is from "6 days ago", even though I've made many, many tab changes in the last six days. Basically, Session Buddy doesn't seem to be saving regular changes. I've verified this behavior on two different laptops (both Chrome OS) that use two different Google profiles.

[NichoUnited]

I have the same problem. I am using a Chromium Browser (Vivaldi) and it seems something has broken.

[Sunil Gupta]

Thanks for confirming you're experiencing this too, NichoUnited.

I will email the Session Buddy folks.

[Session Buddy Support]

Session Buddy currently only saves a "Previous Session" when the browser is closed or crashes.

We're working on the ability to go back to previous states based on finer-grained events such as closing a window.

Hans

[Sunil Gupta]

Got it. I seemed to remember more recency in the "Previous Sessions" section. I keep my windows in a certain order. In the past, when I closed a window accidentally and needed to reopen all windows in the correct order, I would find a suitable session in Previous Sessions. Nowadays, the most recent option in Previous Sessions is many days old and thus not usable because it is missing tabs (or entire windows) that were created since then.

Is this not how Session Buddy worked in the past?

Thanks.

[Session Buddy Support]

The triggers for generating a Previous Session have always been the same.

That said, we agree that there is room for improvement there and hope to provide a more robust solution soon.

Cheers,

Hans

[Violeta Laralá]

I don't know what these triggers are, but this is not entirely true in practice. Previously the sessions were automatically saved every so often. I came here myself asking the same question, and if you search the topics in this forum you can see that lots of people are asking the same. I do not know what changed, but previously Session Buddy saved the session automatically very often, and not just when crashing, and now it doesn't.

[Session Buddy Support]

As mentioned, Session Buddy currently only saves a "Previous Session" when 

1) the browser is closed (eg, via the Exit action in the Chrome menu or when the last open window is closed)

or

2) Chrome or the OS crashes

Session Buddy has never auto saved sessions on a regular interval or any other triggers, even though it may seem like it.

Not ideal, I know, but we're working on making it better.

Hans

[David Leslie]

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Regards,

David

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[Violeta Laralá]

I'm not trying to be thick, I swear, but how are there so many people who think there used to be an automatic saving of sessions, myself included? I remember this quite clearly, it's saved my arse many times, and I have been using Session buddy for years! Are we really making this up/misremembering? It seems like it's a topic that brings a lot of people to this forum trying to look for answers!

[Session Buddy Support]

I'm not sure. I guess it's an easy assumption to make that SB will generate a previous session on regular intervals or certain events other than closing the last tab. All I can tell you is that to-date this has never been the way it works.

Hans

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[Roberto A]

Hi Hans, it seems like a lot of people are following Goebbels's statement: "Repeat a lie a thousand times, and it will be the truth" ; - )

To be sincere, I could swear that SB used to have regular save, but since you are is father, who knows better is you 

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[steven...@gmail.com]

A few weeks ago my Session Buddy extension to Chrome (Windows 10) also started failing to auto save the session when chrome crashes or the entire chrome app is shut down.  Used to work flawlessly.  So based on other advice I've seen I:

1. Closed chrome.

2. Copied folder chrome-extension_edacconmaakjimmfgnblocblbcdcpbko_0, and files Databases.db & Databases.db-journal from folder C:\Users\steve\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\databases to a safe location

3. Started Chrome & uninstalled Session Buddy.  The indicated folder and files were deleted from the former location

4. Reinstalled the extension.

5. Closed Chrome and copied my backups of the SB folder and 2 files from their safe location back to the correct folder.

5. Restarted Chrome.

Now, I do have all my prior sessions that I saved manually back.

HOWEVER: Still when I open some tabs, then close Chrome via task manager or by clicking Exit in Chrome, the previous session is STILL not saved.  I only see 1 "Previous session" from weeks ago.  The setting Automatically Record Sessions is ON and the number of previous sessions to save is set to 10.  Still nothing.

Apparently either you broke this, or a change to the Windows OS broke the part of your code that used to do this right.

PLEASE FIX OR ADVISE ANOTHER WAY TO FIX MYSELF.

Thank you.

[Dennis Bareis]

I notice about a statement by support "the browser is closed (eg, via the Exit action in the Chrome menu or when the last open window is closed)", why a timer is so difficult I don't know.

Mine don't get saved when I close the browser and I think I know where the bug is.

To reproduce:

(1) open a new browser (so have 2)

(2) open a few tabs

(3) Close the new browser window

(4) Open "session Buddy", it says that it has saved the session a few seconds ago, BUT it has saved only the tabs in the first browser, not those in the second one we just closed.

[Phil Zale]

@Hans ... sir, if I may politely and humbly join this conversation ... I would like to say with 100% certainty I used to have sessions saved every 30 minutes;  but after a reinstall onto a new computer  about 1 or 1.5 months ago, the option absolutely cannot be found anywhere.

I'm sure you're working on more than one thing, but if there's ANY way you might be able to look into this and either point me in the right direction, or restore the option, I don't think you can imagine how important it is to a person who routinely keeps 150+ tabs open  (and that's an entirely different problem, but I do own that one)

Thanks

[Marysia Kurowski]

Mine have never auto-saved, and I've been using Session Buddy for years. But when I've closed Chrome and reopened it later I've only once found that Session Buddy didn't save the session.

If I wanted to be sure that I wouldn't lose the session for a future date (eg for next time I open Chrome) then I'd either regularly save the session and at the end of the day delete the saved ones that I no longer needed or I'd regularly use Chrome's "Bookmark all tabs..." facility.