How To Retrieve Unsaved Data In Web Browsers When It Stops Working?

April 14th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

Before I start with the actual tip on ‘How to retrieve unsaved data in Web Browsers when it stops working?’ let me Thank Everton for asking to be a guest blogger at Connected Internet. I am Mr. Byte and from now on I will be bringing Tips and Tweaks on various subjects every week.

Day after day more applications are becoming web based and it’s easy as we need not carry the data around with us. But with Windows, sometimes applications like Web browsers are prone to stop working unexpectedly. If you have been working on web application with unsaved data (For example, a long mail to your old friend that you have been writing for the past half an hour or you collecting all tit bits of information with related links for your current thesis) and suddenly if it stops working unexpectedly then you can stop cursing yourself for not saving the file and just follow this simple process to recover your precious unsaved data.
Applications like Web browsers stop working when you have very less RAM space and you load it more than it can handle. Without adequate resources, your computer locks some applications while it tries to do all of the work demanded of it. The first way to retrieve the unresponding browser is to close the other applications which are taking the memory space in RAM. Open Task Manager (press CTRL+ALT+DEL keys) to find all the applications that are currently running and close all other applications. Here be careful not to close your web browser and this action may sometimes spontaneously recover the web browser after you reduce the system load.

If your browser is still in ‘Not Responding state’, still there are ways to retrieve your unsaved data. One of the techniques is by memory dumping or process dumping. Applications like ‘CurrProcess Process Viewer‘ helps you to “dump” the memory being used by that application into a text file, which you can then open later and recover your data from. Open the dumped file to find your unsaved data in the same form you left it (assuming your work is in text format).

My advice would be to use applications like Google Docs for any online word processing as they have auto save mechanism which periodically saves your work in their server. So the amount of work you might lose maybe very less or nothing at all. This will also make sure that your work is saved even when OS stops working.

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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