[HOW TO] Manually Backup/Restore/Transfer your profile to another device ๐ฅโ๐พโ๐ป
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As this fits onto this thread...
Dear all,
i have to do a new and clean windows install on my machine. I already did some tests to transfer all those data to another machine to check if this works as intended.
Because i have sorted my Browser to different "tasks", I made a lot of Users / "people" (as they are called)
I try to copy all the information, including every sessions, open tabs and so on....First of all I did the implemented Synchronisation.
Next was copy the "Default" folder in the User Data from one PC to another, which helped a lot recovering my current session. But only from one of my users.
Last thing was copy the "Profile1" to ProfileX folder to the new machine.
But I was not able to access the Profiles/Users/People (what ever you want to call it) I have available on my main machine.
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@Nathas89 Hi,
You need to backup/import the Local State for from your Main PC.It's on the User data Root.
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@pafflick said in [HOW TO] Manually Backup/Restore/Transfer your profile to another device :
C:\Programs\Vivaldi\User Data
When I backup my profile date, does it also backs up cookies and login data( no passwords) of all sites? I'm planning to go from vivaldi snap to vivaldi stable, I don't want to manually login every website, is there a way to avoid that?
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@daysofnil If you stay on the same machine, same OS user, every data file will transfer intact and functional from snapshot to stable. Do not try to transfer the whole Default file intact, though, because there may be settings or structure in other (not data) files/folders in the snapshot that are not compatible with Stable. You can move over sessions, history, cookies, login data, bookmarks, icons, etc.
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@Ayespy Another thing, if I just install stable version over the snap, and don't do any of the copy paste things, will It work?
I'm using same laptop, same OS
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@daysofnil It might work, and it might break your profile. You don't know until you try. Installing 6.2 over a 6.3 profile is not recommended and if it breaks something, we don't have support for that. Then, too, if you try, your system may refuse because "you already have a newer version of Vivaldi installed.."
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@daysofnil And shifting files over is a 5-minute task.
Rebuilding the looks and preferences of your browser the way you want takes more time. That takes me another 10 minutes.
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@Ayespy Ok, so I just did this,
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I backed up my browser data
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Uninstalled vivaldi snap, Unchecked delete browsing data while uninstalling
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Installed vivaldi stable
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everything is working
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login cookies and themes are also there
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@daysofnil So you installed it over the Snapshot version profile after all. And so far, nothing seems to have broken. I would not have taken that chance, but as it seems to have worked out for you, then well and good.
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FWIW, following one of the recent stable updates and after a period with few major changes in the snapshot inner workings (from what I could tell) I also decided to install stable over snapshot... no problems, but then I deliberately waited for a moment when I thought the versions shouldn't have differences in saved data.
This was a laptop which until a few months ago I most used for work, but it seemed pointless to keep updating the snapshot there as it's rarely used for Vivaldi these days.
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@pafflick said in [HOW TO] Manually Backup/Restore/Transfer your profile to another device :
I haven't tested this severely (especially on other systems than Windows), so you might stumble upon some issues that I haven't mentioned here. If so, please let me know, so that we could fix it.
Hi @pafflick. I've been trying to create a backup w/o much luck. All seems ok but for two events:
(1) I get a warning about not having enough space when I'm copying to a virtually empty 1T outboard drive. It seems to occur around .eml files. I'm assuming that's emails but I don't know how to work around it.
(2) I also get an 'unknown' error which I'm not sure corrupts the backup but I do wonder & have no way of knowing. I realize this is not enough information to track it down but I thought maybe you could point me in a direction I hadn't yet considered. TIA -
@janrif said in [HOW TO] Manually Backup/Restore/Transfer your profile to another device :
@pafflick said in [HOW TO] Manually Backup/Restore/Transfer your profile to another device :
I haven't tested this severely (especially on other systems than Windows), so you might stumble upon some issues that I haven't mentioned here. If so, please let me know, so that we could fix it.
Hi @pafflick. I've been trying to create a backup w/o much luck. All seems ok but for two events:
(1) I get a warning about not having enough space when I'm copying to a virtually empty 1T outboard drive. It seems to occur around .eml files. I'm assuming that's emails but I don't know how to work around it.Hi,
Have you cleared Cache before the Copy?
On a default install it's on a separated place, but we don't know your situation.Try to use WinDirStat or TreeSize to determine the size.
(2) I also get an 'unknown' error which I'm not sure corrupts the backup but I do wonder & have no way of knowing. I realize this is not enough information to track it down but I thought maybe you could point me in a direction I hadn't yet considered. TIA
V was closed during the copy?
You may need to try TeraCopy and / or run a CheckDisk on both drives. -
@Zalex108 said in [HOW TO] Manually Backup/Restore/Transfer your profile to another device :
@janrif said in [HOW TO] Manually Backup/Restore/Transfer your profile to another device :
@pafflick said in [HOW TO] Manually Backup/Restore/Transfer your profile to another device :
I haven't tested this severely (especially on other systems than Windows), so you might stumble upon some issues that I haven't mentioned here. If so, please let me know, so that we could fix it.
Hi @pafflick. I've been trying to create a backup w/o much luck. All seems ok but for two events:
(1) I get a warning about not having enough space when I'm copying to a virtually empty 1T outboard drive. It seems to occur around .eml files. I'm assuming that's emails but I don't know how to work around it.Hi,
Have you cleared Cache before the Copy?
On a default install it's on a separated place, but we don't know your situation.Try to use WinDirStat or TreeSize to determine the size.
(2) I also get an 'unknown' error which I'm not sure corrupts the backup but I do wonder & have no way of knowing. I realize this is not enough information to track it down but I thought maybe you could point me in a direction I hadn't yet considered. TIA
V was closed during the copy?
Hi @Zalex108 Yes
You may need to try [TeraCopy]
I had been using a program called "Backup Maker" which has been around for years but I will look at 'TeraCopy'.
I ran check disk on both drives & everything seems all right
(https://www.codesector.com/teracopy) and / or run a CheckDisk on both drives.
Thanks for your reply.
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"Keep V apps in the background" is active?
At Chrome settings -
@Zalex108 said in [HOW TO] Manually Backup/Restore/Transfer your profile to another device :
"Keep V apps in the background" is active?
At Chrome settingsI don't understand what this means; over my head....
Also I see TeraCopy copying hundreds of EML files. I assume these are email items but I'm not sure that I need to copy them. TIA
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@janrif said in [HOW TO] Manually Backup/Restore/Transfer your profile to another device :
@Zalex108 said in [HOW TO] Manually Backup/Restore/Transfer your profile to another device :
"Keep V apps in the background" is active?
At Chrome settingsI don't understand what this means; over my head....
Bookmark
chrome://settingsGo there, search for Background
Also I see TeraCopy copying hundreds of EML files. I assume these are email items but I'm not sure that I need to copy them. TIA
If all the accounts are online, those EML will recreate on the target system.
If there's Offline accounts, then you need them if interested on retain them.
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@Zalex108 OK, I will look in chrome. Thank you, again. The TrueCopy app is very, very fast & I like it much better than what I was using. I just wish the interface was bigger; very hard to read the tiny font and I'm not going to change my display settings to accommodate it. Now, I'm going to find information on Error Codes 522 & 534.