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Recover Deleted History On Google Chrome in Easy Ways

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We know what you feel when your Google Chrome history is suddenly lost or deleted. Especially when you don’t know how to recover and retrieve them back? Just calm down guys, this is not end of world. We will try to give you some solution about this incident. On this post you will find simple ways to recover deleted Chrome history with quickly and accurately. Please be patient to follow the steps

Recover History Files on Google Chrome
Recover History Files on Google Chrome

But before that, people keep to ask “Can You Recover Deleted History on Google Chrome“. We said yes, it is possible to recover deleted Google Chrome history. You just need to try to following on of these method.

If the history files are deleted by mistake, people will be wondering the ways to recover Google Chrome history files. Here in this part, I will help you recover deleted history Chrome quickly. (All methods are tested on a Windows 10 computer.) Here we go, We will show you how to recover deleted history on Google Chrome in 3 easy ways.

Method 1: Try to use the Recycle Bin

Recover deleted Google history: open the Recycle Bin to check whether the deleted history files are stored there temporarily.

  • If YES, select them and choose Restore from the context menu.
  • If NOT, you might have permanently deleted the browsing history. In this case, continue to Method 2.

For more details about the Recycle Bin recovery, please read this page:

To Complete Recycle Bin Recovery, This Is What You Should Know

Recycle Bin recovery seems quite difficult for us if the Recycle Bin is emptied or the files are further deleted from it; but, it is not the case.

Method 2: Use Data Recovery Program

An easy way to recover any lost files is to use the tool – MiniTool Power Data Recovery. It is useful and even able to recover permanently deleted files in all common Windows systems.

How can you recover deleted history on computer?

Step 1: run MiniTool Power Data Recovery to see the following interface. For Google Chrome history recovery, go to This PC and select C drive to scan.
This PC
The Google Chrome history files are generally kept in this path by default: C:UsersUsernameAppDataLocalGoogleChromeUser DataDefault.

Therefore, select C: as the target drive in this step.

However, your path can be different as you can see from our example. To find the path your History is saved at, type chrome://version/ in the Chrome address bar to see the detailed information.

Profile Path
Besides, if you have exported the Google Chrome bookmarks to a local drive before they get lost, you need to scan the specific drive to recover Google Chrome bookmarks.Step 2: wait until the scan is finished; alternatively, during the scan, you can open the currently searched partitions to look for that Google folder. Once that folder has been found, you can pause the scanning process, check that folder and click Save.

look for Google folder
Step 3: in the prompt window, set a directory to save the files and press OK to confirm. Please make sure that the free space left in the target storage directory is enough for you to recover the deleted internet history.

Note: If you are using the trial edition to finish step 1 ~ step 3 of Chrome history file recovery, you will see the following dialog about the file saving limit. Therefore, you have to upgrade your copy of MiniTool Power Data Recovery to break the limit in order to complete the recovery.

limitation
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Keep reading to find the many other ways to recover deleted history from Google Chrome.

Method 3: Resort to System Restore

Another easy way to recover Chrome browsing history is turning to System Restore. It is able to restore every time the internet history is deleted.

Please follow the tutorial given below to carry out the Google Chrome history file recovery:

  1. Click on the Cortana icon and type system restore into its search box.
  2. Press Enter on the keyboard or choose Create a restore point from the Best match to open it.
  3. Click on the System Restore button in System Protection tab.
  4. Click on the Next button in the pop-up System Restore window.
  5. Choose a proper restore point from the list.
  6. Click on the Next button and confirm your restore point.
  7. Click on the Finish button and wait for it to complete.
  8. Restart your computer.

System Restore
After the rebooting, you can open Google Chrome to check whether the internet history is back.

Reference : http://minitool.com/data-recovery/recover-google-chrome-history.html

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