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Safari tabs from last session all restore as Untitled

After restarting my MacBook all my Safari tabs from last session are shown as Untitled and the windows open blank. This despite me having "Reopen all windows from last session" checked in Preferences. So I seem to have lost about a dozen windows, most of them with multiple tabs.

My History is still there but some of these windows date back months, so I have no hope of finding them.

Any solutions, please?

Safari version 15.0 running in Catalina version 10.15.7

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Sep 28, 2021 2:07 AM

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Posted on Oct 4, 2021 1:55 AM

Software manufacturers keep doing this. They introduce a new version and leave out good stuff from the previous. This latest failure by Apple really takes the biscuit. The update to Catalina 10.15.7 has lost all my Safari tabs. I had many of these, and constantly referred back to them. This is a major pain and Apple should be censured for this total disinterest it its customers.

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Dec 18, 2021 12:35 PM in response to wwllacewords

None of the solutions I found worked for me, including restoring SafariTabs.db*. This, however, did:


Go to folder ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Safari/Data/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.apple.Safari.savedState


Restore files:

data.data

window_1.data

windows.plist


I had to go back several months to find a good set of these files. Once restored, all of my dozens of windows and hundreds of tabs opened in Safari 15.2 on Big Sur 11.6.2. I added this to the reddit thread that's mentioned in the post from AnTianaDorcha.


I notice that most of the time it still opens with a bunch of empty windows after closing and re-opening. Not only that, but when it is going to open with empty windows it takes several minutes to do so. During the delay I see the spinning beach ball cursor.

Jan 10, 2022 5:51 PM in response to Michael620801

So I'm not the only one having all these issues on my MacBook Pro, which has gotten much worse with the last update. But Mail has always been an issue, takes forever to load. I have never understood why Mail works so poorly on Apple. Laptop has taken an hour to load at times, which includes email, so I can get to a Zoom link for an appt time. I've had to resort to small screen on iPhone so as not to miss the meeting. Safari is crashing constantly, as is the entire iOS causing laptop to restart numerous times. Spinning ball constantly. Not responding issues. The open windows all revert to Start Page for some time now. I'm not a tech person, so not sure I can follow some complicated instructions, as shown above. At least I found someone discussing the issue: Jan 10, 2022. Not sure when I did the last update but it was in 2021.

Jan 12, 2022 3:27 AM in response to ArabianKnits

To get to the folders mentioned by me and raaid, you go to Finder, then go to the menu item 'Go' and find 'Go to Folder' (or there is a shortcut for this, shift command G). You can then paste the folder path in there (it isn't a URL, doesn't go in your browser) and it should work. For the path that I posted, you have to include your username where it indicates instead of [username] (or whatever I typed when I shared it). Hope that helps you.

Safari tabs from last session all restore as Untitled

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