@jane-n
Thank you for your response.
I was able to get things back to normal after switching to a different VPN. It's still unclear why the network was blocked, probably due to the unpredictable nature of the GFW.

I had to log out and log in again. This brought to life some bookmarks deleted 2 years ago, which was kind of weird. Now the order of the bookmarks is completely changed and I have to rearrange them again. But it appears that the problem is fixed now, as my mobile, tablet and laptop synchronize well. Thanks for your help and keep up the good work!

@bar0end0drifter

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You can use OneTab Extension, would be easier to keep it organized.

Then open it as Workspaces and bookmark the preferred.
Test it before on Clean Profiles.

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@suharji

Hi,
You can find more places here:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/727149

@WEBlink, encryption password is only stored locally, if you lost it, syncdata can't be recovered, Vivaldi don't have access to it. You only can recover your account password, because of this, it's important to save your sync password in a safe place, preferably outside the PC.

@sedative29rus I hope so, too. The guy working on it really knows his stuff (he developed our entire sync software and infrastructure pretty much single-handedly), but syncing custom speed dial icons is a really, really knotty problem and one of the early things he had to do on it was change the location and structure of storage for them.

@mib2berlin said in does the sync option happen every xx minutes? No way to speed up?:

There was a script to export chains

@Bettybop

https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/93964/import-export-command-chains

@DoctorG no, just simple connection to my internet provider at home.

@Skrapav

Hi,
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As mentioned,
Post your specs.

For some users seems already fixed, as per your report still fails for some others.

Check on the meantime at chrome://sync-internals to try to force it and wait for some hours if still runs partially.

This problem mysteriously resolved itself on its own in a few days, without my removing sync data and starting over. Even the entry for the device I no longer own is gone. So it's all set, now.

Ok thanks I will try it

@malikzeeb Hi - in Windows the saved passwords are encrypted using a key from your OS login session (DPAPI) as well as a secret in a browser file (Local State). If this somehow fails, for instance if you change user account or the secret somehow gets deleted, decryption will fail.

The password for Sync is stored like regular passwords in the browser.

When this happens, do:

Check Settings > Privacy > Passwords > Show saved passwords. Make sure there's an entry for vivaldi://settings/sync and that you can view it (click the eye icon). Check the Chromium internal chrome://password-manager/passwords for the same. You will be prompted for your OS user password to view the passwords.

Also try using the tool WebBrowserPassView to view your passwords:
https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/web_browser_password.html
This should automatically find Vivaldi's login data file and decrypt the passwords. It's a good way to find if the password decryption is working as expected and/or if you've got duplicates messing things up.

The only reason I can think of that your would be asked repeatedly for your Sync password is if the browser is somehow unable to decrypt it. As to the why this happens, no good idea, could be external "security" tools on your system, or maybe an extension.

This should not have happened. The only time I've seen it is when a device that has not been synced in a long time gets signed in while another device is already signed in. Even though the second device is already signed in, the old one overwrites it.

The trick is, don't allow weeks or months to go by without one of your synced devices signed in, and they will be kept current with each other.

The other thing that can happen is, you forget your encryption password and install a new one. That wipes all sync records except the one you just made the new password for.

@mib3berlin I have removed the cloud and bin icon from top due to space taken up by it which is for ope tabs but unfortunately can bring them to bottom bar or sidebar via edit panel feature so cant see that. Let me know if I can add these icon elsewhere.

@JL1989
Hi, you can open vivaldi://sync-internals
there is an overview and much more but I am not aware of a list of synced settings.
I am sure some user know what is not synced.
Custom keyboard shortcuts, mouse gestures, security settings for example.

Cheers, mib

Well guess what? I don't have to post a screen shot of that error for you, because today when I happened to look at the cloud sync icon, it showed synced tabs.... with a drop down box showing my 313 tabs on my old desktop. Clicking on that gave me a drop down box with the option to open all the tabs at the bottom, which opened them in a new Vivaldi screen. So, now I don't have to go through all the work of trying to copy them individually.... Once that worked, I am really liking this sync feature.... Maybe something we did helped. Thanks for your help.

@mib3berlin still unhelpful.

and here is the link to the actual request https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/53420/sync-email-rss-calendar-configurations-and-seen-read-statuses

@vdeane
No idea, I can watch the update in realtime, add a reading list on Android, trigger update, the number of reading lists get one more.
Trigger on desktop and reading list appear.

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