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Syncing between devices -- What is being synced?
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I have read through your help dialog "Sync browser data across devices" and which reads fine until we get to "Connecting Another Device". At this point it either falls apart or I get stupid. I have Vivaldi browsers opened at same time on two different computers & both logged in for syncing. Each has a different set of bookmarks. What data is synced among the server & the two computers? Does the data from one computer overwrite the server & the other computer? Do I end up with everything from both computers in all three locations ?
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@beotto47
Do I end up with everything from both computers in all three locations ?Hi and yes, bookmarks are added. Some have 100000 bookmarks, this will need some time to sync, hours.
Since some time it is a bug:
Sync log in name is case sensitive, you can log in with Beotto47 but sync does not work correctly.
Check it, please.
You can check vivaldi://sync-internals , too.
Does other like notes, extensions work?Cheers, mib
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Agreed.
I also have many bookmarks and the first "Sync" is always painful. After that it seems to go better.
I can just forget about it but I only sync bookmarks and notes.
Must get into both and clean them as there are now many dupes from early Sync'ing days.
Do wish they would have put bookmarks into some database format that way dealing with them would be easy. -
@beotto47 said in Syncing between devices -- What is being synced?:
I have read through your help dialog "Sync browser data across devices" and which reads fine until we get to "Connecting Another Device". At this point it either falls apart or I get stupid. I have Vivaldi browsers opened at same time on two different computers & both logged in for syncing. Each has a different set of bookmarks. What data is synced among the server & the two computers? Does the data from one computer overwrite the server & the other computer? Do I end up with everything from both computers in all three locations ?
A couple of tips which may help:
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for each device, make sure you used the exact same character case when logging in - there will be issues if I try to log in to one as "mossman" and another as "MossMan" (this seems to be a common problem when people first try to sync)
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for each device, make sure you set up your sync encryption and selected the data to sync in the settings
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if sync is definitely set up properly above, then try checking the (many many) options and lists in vivaldi://sync-internals ... the "type info" table on the first page should show the same numbers of "total entries" and "live entries" for bookmarks etc, and be in the "running" state (currently "history delete directives" and "user events" seem to be the only ones not in use for me). You can click the "trigger getupdates" button on that first page to manually make it sync and see if things change...
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i am facing the same problem will try mossman tips and report back
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@mib2berlin Will it at least show that it's syncing? Mine doesn't seem to show anything other than Download & Upload "Success", yet there is no information.
How will I know when it will be done or if it's even working?
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@mossman Sorry, this doesn't make any sense to me. I'm looking in the Sync page of settings and don't see any of these things you've mentioned. I don't have time to look through the computer's files for Vivaldi and all the specifics inside each file (nor should I have to).
What exactly should the sync page of settings look like to facilitate ALL of the information syncing from my account? It says that all info should be syncing, yet I don't see anything active and not one thing has transferred.
The info has to be somewhere online, right? How do I receive it?
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@bknight
Please don´t cross post issues.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin Sorry, I thought that would be considered responding to the original poster on this issue, since I'm having the same issue, as others have done?
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@bknight said in Syncing between devices -- What is being synced?:
@mossman Sorry, this doesn't make any sense to me. I'm looking in the Sync page of settings
I only mentioned the sync settings page to log in and select what to sync... I said to open vivaldi://sync-internals for all the other things!
See mib2berlin's response for what that looks like.
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