[HOW TO] Manually Backup/Restore/Transfer your profile to another device 🖥↔💾↔💻
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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?
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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?
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@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).
