Tab thumbnails disappear randomly
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@bowelripper said in What's up with this? (Tab images gone):
I have one called Session Buddy (manages tabs and bookmarks), maybe that's the culprit so I've disabled it.
Good that disabling Session Buddy solved your issue.
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Actually, it's not solved, it happened again today. Session Buddy is not the culprit, obviously. Now I have no clue anymore.
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@bowelripper Sad to read this.
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Is there a way to set the thumbnails location to another folder?
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I see such loss of thumbnails when profile subfolder VivaldiThumbnails was removed or emptied.
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Yes, that's the problem, that folder gets emptied - but not by me.
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@bowelripper said in What's up with this? (Tab images gone):
that folder gets emptied - but not by me.
Strange.
Perhaps Windows cleaner tool or an other app wipes it. -
I only have the included Windows Security and I've never had this problem before. I have the uBlock Origin extension (ad-blocker), but I wouldn't think it deletes files like that.
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@bowelripper Really strange.
And you do not use Windows own cleaning tool to clean from unneeded files? -
Nope, haven't used it. I've now installed FolderChangesView to monitor the folder to see exactly when the files get deleted.
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@bowelripper said in What's up with this? (Tab images gone):
I've now installed FolderChangesView to monitor the folder to see exactly when the files get deleted.
Good idea.
I am keen which program causes epmtying of folder.
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Just now I saw it in real time. The folder was open in my file explorer, and when I closed Vivaldi, the files were immediately wiped. So apparently Vivaldi wipes them upon closing - sometimes. What could cause this?
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@bowelripper Which Vivaldi version?
Could only be a extension. Or strange Vivaldi Sync processing.
Or you set Settings → Privacy → Browsing History → Current Session?
Or a broken update/install.
Download installer from vivaldi.com, uninstall (do not let delete browser data!), install -
Browsing history was set to one year. I guess I will just have to un- and reinstall and hope that solves it.
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Damn, once again the tab images are gone (look at attached image in opening post to see what I mean). It worked for a little while after I uninstalled and installed Vivaldi again, but now the problem has reappeared. Nobody's got a clue why the image files get deleted from the thumbnail folder randomly?
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@bowelripper said in What's up with this? (Tab images gone):
Nobody's got a clue why the image files get deleted from the thumbnail folder randomly?
No idea why this can happen.
We never saw such issue and had not got any bug reports in our bug tracker. -
It's really strange indeed. Not sure how I can try to narrow down the cause.
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@bowelripper Do you use Vivaldi Sync daily?
There are folders which may contain image files
C:\Users\WINUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Default\SyncedFiles
C:\Users\WINUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Default\VivaldiThumbnails\ -
Sync is turned on, yes. The thumbnail folder you're referring to is the one where the images get wiped. The other one I haven't checked.
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@bowelripper Do you use extension DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials?
