A routine Chrome reinstall nearly turned into a disaster when a client’s hundreds of bookmarks vanished — no Google sync, no backup, no safety net. Instead of accepting the loss, I turned to Windows Shadow Volume copies and recovered the Chrome user data folder from a recent snapshot. Inside was the bookmarks JSON file. Minutes later, everything was restored. A reminder: even when data seems gone, the system may still be keeping quiet backups.

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