[DukeM]

I am aware of the downloadlist and linkcollector zip files in the cfg folder for recovery but what if JD2 was still on the process of crawling links that you manually added via Right Click>Add New Links when it suddenly got interrupted by say, I don't know, some idiot clipping the power supply.

Is there possibly a way that I can recover the links I told JD2 to crawl before it got turned off? Thank you.

[pspzockerscene]

Items that are not in downloadlist/linkgrabber aren't in those backups so generally the answer is: No.

If you're really desparate, you might be able to find them in your "logs" folder.
Typically plugin related logs contain the name of the plugin in their filenames e.g. "pornktube.tv" -> pornktube.tv_jd.plugins.hoster.PornktuBe.log.0

[DukeM]

Hey, psp!

Aha, thanks! Looks like the log files did have the links but each separated by dozens of lines of code and I had over 5,000 links at the time. Haha. Easily filtered with something like Notepad++ though. However, it's harder to identify especially if I had multiple pakages crawling at the same time.

But like you said, it's a desperate measure/last resort kind of thing. So thank you for letting me know about this. Might need it some day especially for an idiot like me who easily clips a power supply.

Thanks again!

[pspzockerscene]

@DukeM
I got some better suggestions for you.
Those will work as long as you're using the clipboard to add those links which you're probably doing.

1. Ditto
An open source Clipboard Manager which can save an "unlimited" amount of most recent copied items.
You can also exclude source-applications such as passwordmanagers so your passwords won't be saved in that clipboard history.

2. If you're a Windows user: Windows 10+ has similar functionality built in but I've never used it and the setting to enable it might be hidden.