[HOW TO] Manually Backup/Restore/Transfer your profile to another device 🖥↔💾↔💻
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@boristhemoggy There is no portable version of Vivaldi (unfortunately). If you mean "standalone", then it still doesn't make a difference, the flags are the same. For some reason the navigation on that page seems flawed, try searching for the Import Passwords flag manually (you can use the search bar at the top of the flags list), it should be there.
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@pafflick said in [HOW TO] Manually Backup/Restore/Transfer your profile to another device
:@boristhemoggy There is no portable version of Vivaldi (unfortunately). If you mean "standalone", then it still doesn't make a difference, the flags are the same. For some reason the navigation on that page seems flawed, try searching for the Import Passwords flag manually (you can use the search bar at the top of the flags list), it should be there.
What's the difference between portable and standalone?
I have tried searching. done it 3 times just using password and import and nothing at all comes up -
Hi,
Try enabling the Unexpire ones, restart and search for the Passwords.
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@boristhemoggy You're using an old version (Chrome 79). The current version is 83.
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@boristhemoggy You are using an old version of Vivaldi. Try updating to the latest version first.
@boristhemoggy said in [HOW TO] Manually Backup/Restore/Transfer your profile to another device
:What's the difference between portable and standalone?
Portable means you can move it to another computer and it will work fine. Standalone has its all components in one folder, but once you move it to another computer, some things will be unavailable (the login data and extensions will become unavailable)
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@pafflick said in [HOW TO] Manually Backup/Restore/Transfer your profile to another device
:@boristhemoggy You are using an old version of Vivaldi. Try updating to the latest version first.
@boristhemoggy said in [HOW TO] Manually Backup/Restore/Transfer your profile to another device
:What's the difference between portable and standalone?
Portable means you can move it to another computer and it will work fine. Standalone has its all components in one folder, but once you move it to another computer, some things will be unavailable (the login data and extensions will become unavailable)
My bad
Updated now.
Password import enabled
So, are extensions easy to copy too? -
@boristhemoggy With Sync it would be automatic. If that's not an option for you, then you need to do the following:
@pafflick said in [HOW TO] Manually Backup/Restore/Transfer your profile to another device
:Go to the Extensions page (Menu > Tools > Extensions or vivaldi://extensions).
Open the menu on the left and click on "Open Chrome Web Store".
Download and install all the extensions that you need on this device. If you had them installed on the other profile, all of their settings should be restored automatically as well.
If you forgot some of the extensions that you had on your other profile or can't find them in the store, go to the Default folder from your backup and navigate to the Extensions catalogue. There'll be a bunch of folders with long names. Copy the name of each folder and just search for it using a search engine of your choosing. It should give you a link to the Chrome Web Store page of that extension.Although the extensions are "lost" on your new installation, once you install them back, all of their data will become available, so if you had any settings saved, they'll be automatically restored.
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This is bizarre.
I reinstalled computer but as Vivaldi is standalone that was just the same folder of standalone/portable programs. Yet when I got to import passwords, again the ability to import is absent. So I go to the flags page where I find the version has gone back to the old 79. Most odd because this is a standalone and should not therefore be different just cos I reinstalled windows.
So I got to Vivaldi site and download the latest version and update my standalone installation and it appears only as version 81, not 83.
However the import flag is showing now and is enabled. So I go to import and guess what? yup...no import button to be found on the password page.
Tools>Settings>Privacy>Show passwords...no feature at all to import. What's gone wrong? -
@boristhemoggy said in [HOW TO] Manually Backup/Restore/Transfer your profile to another device
:Tools>Settings>Privacy>Show passwords
You should go to
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Don't suppose there's a way to restore (tab, theme, startpage, search engines...) preferences from Windows to Linux?
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@danielson I think it should work, though I'm unable to test it as I don't have a Linux system. Perhaps you could try it with a test profile & report back? If you transfer a profile without passwords & extensions then it's just as easy as copy & paste.
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Usually do a p.w./extensions sync first as it is impeccable and if i use a Linux distro, it has always been thus far, in a dual-boot situation with Win10.
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Hi,
You can combine it with Extra Steps.
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"Off Topic Tip"
Follow the Signature's Backup | Reset link.
Take the opportunity to start a Backup plan and even create a Template Profile.
Windows 7 (x64)
Vivaldi Backup | Reset + Extra Steps -
ALL I want to do is move my Bookmarks to my USB drive, NOT my whole profile.
I don't recall the precise folder, but back in IE7 & 8, I could open C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Favorites & just move each Favorite to my USB drive.
Is there any way as simple as that in Vivaldi? -
- Find your profile folder in Help, About.
- Copy the "Bookmarks" file to a USB
- Close Vivaldi on the other PC
- Paste "Bookmarks" to the profile folder on the other PC
- Restart Vivaldi
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@pesala said:
- Find your profile folder in Help, About.
- Copy the "Bookmarks" file to a USB
- Close Vivaldi on the other PC
- Paste "Bookmarks" to the profile folder on the other PC
- Restart Vivaldi
So I cannot do something like this:
Copy just 1 or a few of my Bookmarks separately to my USB drive as a HTML file, go to a friends computer, plug in my USB drive & click a saved bookmark HTML file to have it open directly in the browser? -
@arachnid You can export all of your bookmarks as an HTML file.
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@pafflick It's very pity to see why Vivaldi not focusing on this. Sync is a very critical thing a browser should have.
People loved Chrome very much because of its sync feature. Even if you have loads of feature but sync is missing then it makes no sense to use.
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@smerugu28 said in [HOW TO] Manually Backup/Restore/Transfer your profile to another device
:@pafflick It's very pity to see why Vivaldi not focusing on this. Sync is a very critical thing a browser should have.
People loved Chrome very much because of its sync feature. Even if you have loads of feature but sync is missing then it makes no sense to use.
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Vivaldi has had sync since almost the beginning - and synchronises more settings more securely than Chrome. I don't understand why you say this...
This thread is about saving that data as files instead of through synchronisation.
