[HOW TO] Manually Backup/Restore/Transfer your profile to another device 🖥↔💾↔💻
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@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
chrome://settings/passwords(from address field or QC). -
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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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.
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@mossman said in [HOW TO] Manually Backup/Restore/Transfer your profile to another device
:@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.
?!?
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.
I beg to differ this. Try it by yourself and see how the sync works. Then only you will understand.
If the sync was working so well then why there was a need to create this post to manually backup and restore things. Completely contrasting.
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@smerugu28 said in [HOW TO] Manually Backup/Restore/Transfer your profile to another device
:why there was a need to create this post to manually backup and restore things
This thread was created back in February of 2017, while there was no Sync in Vivaldi (which came around officially with the 2.0 update, back in September of 2018 - so more than a year later). We decided to leave this thread for those who wish to manually transfer or backup their profiles.
Meanwhile, Sync is still a work in progress - we're working on incorporating more settings into it, but it's not a cakewalk. For example, providing the ability to sync search engines requires some major rewrites of our code, but the added benefit is that we will still allow removing default search engines while our competitors will most likely not.
Although we haven't said the last word on Sync yet, it already covers most of our users' needs. I don't see the point of your complaints here - I'd say they're rather counter-productive.
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@smerugu28 said in [HOW TO] Manually Backup/Restore/Transfer your profile to another device
:Try it by yourself and see how the sync works. Then only you will understand.
I have 9 synchronised copies of Vivaldi on 3 laptops, 1 desktop, 1 netbook, 2 phones and a tablet. I then manage another 6 synchronised copes of Vivaldi for my wife. I understand very well how sync works.
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One thing I hate with a passion with chromium browsers is the profile migration, it's way too tedious. Why can't it be like Firefox? Copy the profile folder (no matter the OS) and it's done. No messing around and exposing the passwords, and no need to reinstall extensions.
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@Zalex108 "Export links of all extensions" crashes the latest Vivaldi.
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Contact the Extension's Dev and ask to fix it.
Or find another Extension to do it.
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@Zalex108 It was discussed in another thread and fixed. Thanks.
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/79248/export-links-of-all-extensions-crashes-the-browser
