The digital age is here to stay. Along with the accumulation of history and material record, we have the history of the web, abstract, however, present on the internet. Thus, everyone who uses the Internet, whether for work, entertainment or other purposes, leaves a trail of access, which is recorded. In this article will be presented a tutorial to rescue pages and content accessed.
When we access pages in our browsers, whether by computer or portable devices, we end up with a history of links accessed so that we can review pages and find information that may be important, thus preventing them from being irretrievably lost. Although the browser history is automatically saved, it is possible to delete this information from the computer's memory, which may seem like a good idea at the time but it can also cause regret if we want to access a page again and don't remember the name of the site. In cases like this, is it possible to recover deleted history ?
Can You Recover Deleted History on Google Chrome
Developed by Google Inc., Google Chrome is a widely used web browser all over the world. It's simple in design and fast in speed. Like any other web browsers, Google Chrome generates web browsing history that lists web pages a user has visited recently and the associated data - such as page title and time of visit. The history files remind users where they have been on the web and help them go back to any accidentally closed pages.
The annoyance is that the Google Chrome history could be lost due to unknown reasons - most commonly being deletion. What are you supposed to do under this circumstance? In this post, I will show you how to recover deleted history on Google Chrome in different ways.
How to Recover Deleted History on Google Chrome
Method 1: Go to 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.
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.
The Google Chrome history files are generally kept in this path by default: C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default.
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.
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.
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.
Method 3: Make Use of DNS Cache
First make sure that your computer is connected to the internet. After the Chrome history has been deleted/lost, DO NOT shut down or restart your computer.
How to find deleted history on Google Chrome by using cmd:
- Press Windows + R to open the Run dialog.
- Type cmd into the text box and click on the OK button to confirm. (You can also type cmd into the Windows search text box shown after you clicked on Windows Start button and then press Enter on the keyboard.)
- Type the command – ipconfig /displaydns – and then press Enter on the keyboard.
- Wait a moment for the command to complete.
After that, all your recently visited websites will be displayed; here you can find the important internet history that you need.
Method 4: 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.
Method 5: Let Cookies Help You
Cookies are very important sometimes. They are a group of small text files stored in the internet browser that include all your user information & records for the web sites you have visited.
So when you lose your Google Chrome browsing history, you may want to access cookies to see it:
- Open Google Chrome.
- Move your cursor to the upper right corner and click on More option (represented by three points arranged vertically), in order to customize and control Google Chrome.
- Click on Settings option and scroll down to the bottom of the settings page to click on the Advanced button.
- Choose and click Content settings under the Privacy and security part.
- Then, you’ll see Cookies at the top of the list.
- Click on Cookies and find the information you need.
Method 6: Get Help from My Activity
For Google Chrome which is logged in with a Google Account, its browsing history could be seen with the help of My Activity. With this tool, you can view & control activities on your account easily.
- Open www.google.com and type My Activity into the Google search box.
- Open the first result – myactivity.google.com/myactivity.
- Sign in with your Google Account. (If you have logged in Google Chrome all the time, you can skip this step since the account information will be synchronized automatically.)
- Then, you’ll see your exact activities and the related information.
Method 7: Turn to Desktop Search Programs
The desktop search programs are used to search users' files on the computer; however, you will need to find a proper desktop search program and install it to your computer correctly (it's best to choose another drive as the installation place).
After that, you can type any keywords you can remember into the search box on Window's taskbar to search and recover Google Chrome history files.
Method 8: View Deleted History via Log Files
For history files which have been deleted a long time ago, you can still recover them with the help of log files. The index.dat file is a database file hidden on your computer that contains all of the web sites that you have ever visited. Once you have found index.dat file, you're able to list every URL and every web page you have browsed. You can do that by changing the settings to show hidden files and folders on computer.
Final Words
There are methods to recover all the history that was supposedly deleted in Google Chrome. Any user will be able to make use of some tools available on Google itself, for example, make queries through the “DNS” cache of the computer itself , which allows saving all records without their files; will be able to make use of the other programs that make recover the files already deleted.
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