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ArthurSan
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April 18, 2024
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I lost all my favourite generated images! How can I recover it? HELP!

  • April 18, 2024
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I found out today that the Favourite gallery of generated images is linked to the browser history! The chrome history was deleted by mistake and all my favourite gallery inside the Adobe Fireflay was gone after that! Is there any chance to recover it? I'm devastated! 

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@mj
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@mjCommunity Expert
Community Expert
April 19, 2024

Please let us know if you do recover your content.

I'm inclined to think it's not recoverable

Soz

mj

iMSD

Dave Gustafson
Dave Gustafson
Inspiring
April 19, 2024

Hi Arthur!

This is straight from Chrome:

1. Close all open Chrome windows
2. Open File Explorer and type the following location into the address bar, please replace "NAME" with the name of your Windows user account or you can follow the path and open each folder.
3. C:\Users\NAME\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
Note: If you do not find the Default folder then your bookmarks may be located in the Profile1 folder. Follow the same path but replace the word Default with Profile1.
4.Here, you will see two bookmark files – Bookmarks and Bookmarks.bak. The .bak is the most recent backup which was taken when you opened your browser the last time.
5. Rename the Bookmarks file to Bookmarks.old and rename Bookmarks.bak to Bookmarks.
6. You'll see your deleted bookmarks when you
relaunch Chrome. Any bookmarks you've created since the last time you launched Chrome will be lost.    

Hopefuly this can help. Just search for accidentally deleted history in chrome, I found a bunch of ways to do it. Cheers!
    droopydog500
    Community Manager
    droopydog500Community Manager
    Community Manager
    April 19, 2024

    I am not sure that Bookmark suggestion is going to help here. Favourited images are not stored in that file. I am not a Chrome internals expert (or a Firefly internals expert), so I cannot identify every file in the Chrome profile that contains data neccessary to access a previously saved favourite. So, I conducted an experiment, and took an Inspired by the Community image and added the rarely used noun, Sesquipedalianism, to the prompt and generated, then favourited it. I then searched the Chrome profile directory for that word (I am on a Mac), and it found it in:

     

    ./Default/File\ System/012/t/00/00000009

     

     

    That file includes the Firefly generation prompt:

     

    {"type":"text2Image","model":
{"focusedSeed":41729,"browserId":"bb38e4","prompt":"Black-haired Korean girl wearing a yellow raincoat holding a red balloon by its string, wide shot, superstition, Sesquipedalianism","promptType":"inspiration","styles":
{"mode":"manual","value":["art","watercolor"]}
.
.
.

     

     

    This file at least needed and whatever points to this file.

     

    On my Mac, I use Time Machine, and with time machine I back up everything in my Library directory. I am then able to restore a Browser's cache if something goes wrong.  If the original poster has a full backup of the files in their profile directories (on Mac or Windows), they would possibly be able to restore them.  But in my experience, few people back up these files.

     

     

     

     

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    droopydog500
    Community Manager
    droopydog500Community Manager
    Community Manager
    April 18, 2024

    If you cannot restore the browser meta files, I am afraid they are gone forever.  This is an unfortunate problem caused by the design decision to store this data in the browser, rather than centrally in creative cloud.  Hopefully this will change sometime soon.

     

    For the future, there is another way to save the ability to go back to the image/prompt styles and that is with the copy URL feature. Select the image you want to save, and click on the Share button and then select Copy link to image:

    That puts a URL to that image/prompt/styles into the clipboard where you can paste it somewhere else for safekeeping.  You then can go back to that URL later to pull up that image/prompt/styles.

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