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How do I get Google Chrome v17 to archive all my history beyond 5 months ago?

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Mar 15, 2026858 views
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It just deleted everything before 5 months ago. Ugh The old versions always archived up the history index files like "History Index 2011-09". But now "History Index 2011-09" has a very small file size - meaning that it deleted practically everything - as I can now see when I use the Chrome Extensio…

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Fix for: How do I get Google Chrome v17 to archive all my history beyond 5 months ago?

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A long time ago (pretty much since Chrome first came out), users noticed that its history files were getting really, really, really big. Chrome’s history files were growing massive compared to every other browser. It turned out that it was because C…

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