How to recover a text typed in a form when computer crashed? Total Commander finds it, but text editor does not.

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How to recover a text typed in a form when computer crashed? Total Commander finds it, but text editor does not.

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My computer crashed (bluescreen) when I was finishing typing a letter in a
form on-line on a webpage in Vivaldi web browser. I was wondering if I can recover this text?
I run a search (Alt+F7) in Total Commander in all files for some keywords that were used in that text and Total Commander found a file called Session_[some numbers] in a ...\local\vivaldi\user data\defult\sessions\ so this gives me hope that maybe that text exists somewhere in that file.
But when I tried opening this Session file with F3 or in a text editor I could not find those keywords? Why?

Any help, please?
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Re: How to recover a text typed in a form when computer crashed? Total Commander finds it, but text editor does not.

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OK. I finally found manually that text using F3 view in that file. I could not find it automatically because in the F3 view all the letters in that text that I typed in the form are separated with spaces for some reason, so F7 (Find) could not find those words automatically.
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Re: How to recover a text typed in a form when computer crashed? Total Commander finds it, but text editor does not.

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I'd refrain from using any text editor for such binary files and use TC's integrated Lister (F3) to extract the text. Maybe switch to Unicode (by pressing the 6 key) to "normalize" the view.

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Re: How to recover a text typed in a form when computer crashed? Total Commander finds it, but text editor does not.

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Thanks. That helped to remove those spaces between the letters.
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