What should be in AppData>Local>Vivaldi folder (Win 10)?
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Was prompted to update by a couple of third party programs and discovered I had the recent release ending in .55 already installed, although the other programs showed me -- and still shows me with .52 after deleting the executable. I found it in AppData > Local > Vivaldi. Not sure how it got there, but would like to clean up. What if anything should be in that folder? Win 10 Pro x64. Thanks,
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@highstream That depends on how you have Vivaldi installed - per user? Or all users?
Or do you have installed standalone?
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Not standalone, but not sure the answer to the others. Where would I look to find out?
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@highstream It's a choice when you run the installer. Take a look and see if you have a Vivaldi folder in Programs or Programs X86.
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@Ayespy Programs (x64). All or per is a question I haven't encountered or been asked in what seems like 10 years. I'm the only user, but as I recall that doesn't necessarily mean anything re your question.
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@highstream Well, it's a choice you only make once as a rule.
You're in Win10 and have a folder called "Program Files X64?" Or did you just add that to clarify?
In any event, if you have a folder in Program Files, it should have a single folder in it, called "Application." Then in the appdata/local/Vivaldi folder should be a single folder named "User Data."
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Programs (x64) has the Application Folder. I renamed it for my own use, to differentiate it from Downloads>Programs folder.
AppData>etc. has 3.7.2218.52, Dictionaries and SetupMetrics folders, and chrome.VisualElementsManifest.xml, debug.log and vivaldi.VisualElementsManifest.xml files, plus had vivaldi.exe and update_notifier.exe that I deleted. No User Data folder, although my backup has one, dated 4/16. The backup also has an Application folder, dated 4/7.
Should I delete everything in in AppData and copy the User Data folder from backup?
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@highstream What is the target of your desktop Vivaldi shortcut?
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The Application folder in Programs (x64).
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@highstream OK. And there's no User Data folder in that Vivaldi folder? 'Cuz there has to be one somewhere. It's where all your settings, bookmarks, etc. live.
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@highstream And those files you have in your local/Vivaldi folder belong in a folder named "Application" (your target folder to run the app), NOT in a folder named Vivaldi, hanging out there all by themselves.
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@Ayespy My mistake: AppData does have the User Folder. It also has an Application folder. Those files and folders I listed were in the Application Folder. Should I just delete that?
Update: Looking in RevoPro, I see two installations: the .52 is an x64 install in the AppData folder and the .55 current one in Programs (x64) shows as a 32-bit install. That's strange. A vague recollection is that Vivaldi came out with a good x64 version quite awhile back and I took that up. But why an x86 version would be in the Programs folder, that would not be something I would have done knowingly.
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@highstream K, so, your Vivaldi install is pretty much very screwed up. You have two installs in two different locations, one is "All Users" and one is "Per User" (the one in the appdata folder). What you want is to be running a 64-bit .55 version, with all your Application files in the appropriate spot, and all of your User Data files in the appropriate spot.
If you are used to the setup you have now, you should use the "menu/help/check for updates" function to update your 64-bit all-users instance, and just run that.
Check your Control Panel/Programs and Features to see if you have Vivaldi listed more than once or not.
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@Ayespy Yes, P & F shows two installs, just as RevoPro shows.
Remember, I deleted what turns out to be the x64 executable and updater from the AppData>Application folder, so that choice is presumably out.
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@highstream Yeah. So you should use P&F to uninstall the 32-bit one and, if there's still an Application folder left over in the appdata/local/Vivaldi folder, then delete that. That's all you need to do. In fact, you don't even NEED to do that, but it cleans up detritus and reduces confusion. DO NOT exercise the option to remove user data. That User Data folder in appdata/local/Vivaldi belongs there, and you are using it.
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@Ayespy Thanks for your patient help. I'm uninstalling everything and starting again.
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@highstream Seems a little extreme, but suit yourself.
If it were me, I'd do the new install "per user," not "all users," because then everything is in one handy spot. -
@Ayespy Well, I've already done it and wasn't offered the choice. It's been years since I was asked that per user/all users question during an install, back sometime in the Opera Presta era. So I just downloaded and ran what was offered to me at the Vivaldi site, that big button top center which says "Download Vivaldi," which I could tell from the file name was x64. I see now that it installed in AppData (Application folder). How should I have done it otherwise?
And to add to that, in getting started I ran into a "bug" right away in setting my start page as Yahoo.com. Vivaldi is not scaling that page to the open window, even though I set zoom at 90% (another problem: in View, there's no current zoom percentage showing, so how can one know).
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@highstream Well, you got it in the right spot. Do you have the status bar hidden? Your zoom percentage should be shown there.
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@highstream This is what the installer looks like.
You will note the little box that says "Installation Type." The drop-down has three choices, "Install per user," "Install for all users," and "Install standalone," The default, if you have never installed it before, is "per user."
