Edge for some time now has made a daily backup. Mine hasn't made one in the last two days. Even the C:\Users\Clayton\MicrosoftEdgeBackups\backups folder is missing from C:\ Drive.
Anyone else seeing this? Any ideas are appreciated.
Hello Clayton,
I like to manually export to a HTML file for a backup.
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In addition, you could also turn on sync your content/settings in Microsoft Edge to help make sure you don't lose them across all your Windows 10 devices that you sign in to with the same Microsoft account.
As always, I appreciate your input.
The last Edge Backup was made 07/28/2018 at 21:17 local time. I do make the manual backup (export) to the HTML File. I keep it in the same folder as the Edge\backups. That's how I discovered Edge wasn't doing it's backups. Several times a day I run a fairly comprehensive batch file that copies anything (Data, .ini files, Contacts.csv) with the Archive Bit set to TWO WD External Hard Drives.
I don't sync anything I can get out of. I like to think of the two WD External Hard Drives as my own version of "the cloud". I don't have any other devices I use that would benefit from having it in the cloud.
In retrospect, I should have put all this in the original post. It would have saved you from wasting your time. Sorry for that.
I've copied the ...\backups folder from my E:\ drive and placed it in here where it;s "supposed" to be:
And it stays there until the next time I open Edge and it's deleted! Gone, like the screen shot above.
Things do go bump in the night.
Problem Solved!
In a fit of paranoia I'd checked off everything here and had it set to always clear on exit. Resetting back to what's shown solves the issue.
Maybe we've both learned a little something here. Thanks for the time and have a good day.
"I wouldn't of thought that would have deleted this backup."
It does here. It's reproducible, at least the three times I went through with it. I saves the parent folder but wipes out everything under it. I'm laughing at myself about it. I'm my own worst enemy.
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