it's good that you share this, crazy to imagine how much crypto must've been lost through the years simply due to people misplacing their stuff!
i recommend hardware wallets but many choses not to do so, and then it's just a matter of failure/misplacement over time that ultimately leads to total loss.
or worse, some type of virus for those who store it digitally/unencrypted.
what did you store in chrome? metamask?
Yeah - I think I have 3-4 copies between flash drives and a portable hd. I've had everything backed up, but over the last few months I've gotten into a few other projects and didn't back up the wallets/save them other places. I really need to go through and make sure everything is up to date and take one of the flash drives to my safe deposit box.
Chrome was mostly just bookmarks and such. I do have metamask, but I have that backed up.
I'm really glad I found a way to get back to old data. Figured it'd be good to let other's know about it, and it's always a good reminder to back up wallets.