Lost custom Speed Dial Images :(

[thomas.griffiths]

Just loaded up my new favorite browser to discover all my custom images in my speed dial have gone
Anyone else come across this before?

[Pesala]

@thomas-griffiths Where did you store your custom images? Are they still in the folder? Is the folder still there?

[thomas.griffiths]

Hi @Pesala ,

Probably a rookie error here, I simply downloaded the images/Icons and added them. I have no idea where they are supposed to be stored, I assumed Vivaldi imported them into it's own working directory somewhere.
After downloading the images I deleted them.

Cheers.

[Ayespy]

@thomas-griffiths Ah. You can't delete them. You have to store them in a permanent directory where you know they are going to be, and then add them from that directory. Don't use or make a directory within the Vivaldi application or user data folders.

[iAN CooG]

I have learned the hard way too that custom thumbnails don't get imported into Vivaldi data like automatic thumbnails do and I still don't understand this inconvenient difference in treatment for custom thumbs. I want to stress once more that it's totally unintuitive and awkward to force the user to keep them in a different, manually created, directory, instead of inside the topsite file or even inside the bookmarks file as base64 data.

%localappdata%Vivaldi\thumbs is what I'm using to store my custom speeddials

[Pesala]

I store mine (and other vital files) in the Vivaldi folder.

I can see some advantages of allowing users to select images from anywhere on their local drive, and not bloating the topsites file.

[iAN CooG]

@pesala the automatic thumbs gets there anyway, I have 30 thumbnails of which 4 only I wanted to make custom ones. I don't think that would "bloat" any more the file than actually is already, if it is. On the other side, Vivaldi doesn't hint the user in any way that the file you are using for custom thumbs will be used from the path you've imported it and you'll have to keep it forever there. I can bet what you want that almost everyone felt in the same trap at least once.

[Pesala]

@gwen-dragon This method also makes it easier to modify the custom thumbnails. I have a PagePlus publication that I used to create them. If I want to update them at any time, I export them again and they will auto-update in Vivaldi.

It is just better to link content than to embed it where no one knows how to find it. Users who have hundreds of speed dials will appreciate not bloating topsites. I have a couple of images that I use twice on speed dial: for the same sites online and local.

[thomas.griffiths]

Thanks, I guess I am another one who learnt the hard way ... fortunately I only had a handful, however, it would be great if Vivaldi could get slightly smarter with the default images. ie saving a speed dial for Office 365 results in a shrunken image of my inbox. Something simple like the MS logo would be far better.

Thanks for the feedback everyone

[Pesala]

@Gwen-Dragon The Help file could easily be updated:

1. Upload a custom thumbnail to a Speed Dial icon or Speed Dial folder
   Right-click a Speed Dial icon or a Speed Dial folder and choose Select Custom Speed Dial Thumbnail option from the context menu.
   Alternatively, hover over the bookmark thumbnail, then click on the + to select a custom thumbnail.
2. Upload your image to replace the thumbnail.
   The recommended image size is 440×360 px and most image formats are supported, including animated GIFs.

Add:

3. Store custom speed dial images in a folder that will not be deleted.

[Pathduck]

I'm totally with @iAN-CooG on this one. Speed Dial thumbs should be imported into the Vivaldi profile folder, and stored in a format that allows it to by synced. This way users will also not lose the thumbnails when installing Vivaldi on another machine.

New users will discover this issue the hard way, over and over again. Let's face it, "no-one" reads help files, unless something's gone wrong in the first place...

[AltCode]

@Pathduck @iAN-CooG Might as well leave these two very relevant feature requests here:

• Store custom Speed Dial thumbnails
• Sync custom Speed Dial thumbnails