Solved Vivaldi won't open

casc5962

Would exporting my bookmarks make them appear in this "new" Vivaldi incarnation?

casc5962

@ayespy Here's the screenshot of my phone and I don't see the sync cloud

Ayespy

@casc5962 I'm talking about desktop, not mobile.

This is a Vivaldi on Windows topic.

That said, on a Phone (I rarely browse AT ALL on phone despite being a Vivaldi tester, because I find phone browsing to be incredibly frustrating - everything is so damned tiny, there 's no space, and user interaction is complicated) you open the Vivaldi browser, which should show you an address bar near the top, with a Vivaldi logo at the right side of it. Click on that, scroll down, and select "Settings." In Settings there is a sync option, you click it, and then enter the data requested and press the indicated button to activate "sync all" or similar.

In the image you posted, you can see the Vivaldi logo at the right side of the address bar. Start there.

casc5962

@ayespy Do you mean to say that I don't need to sync my phone to recover Vivaldi, in case it crashes next time?

casc5962

@ayespy Which cloud should I press to sync?

There are 2 clouds in the right corner.

Ayespy

@casc5962 I don't mean to say anything.

You said you wanted to sync your phone, and I tried to advise you.

I have never tried to use sync without any other device or instance of Vivaldi to sync to (syncing is not designed to be a self-reflexive operation) but that said, I suppose if you turned on Sync and it reported success, with nothing more than your single desktop instance in play, then I SUPPOSE a copy of your local data would begin to be stored on the sync server waiting for something to download to. If that's the case, then in the event of local data loss, sync might have a copy you could recover. That's my theory.

I don't recommend using sync as a backup mechanism for a single instance of vivaldi, becaus I could not predict how well it would work.

Ayespy

@casc5962 Neither of those clouds would appear to have anything to do with Vivaldi. They are in your SYSTEM taskbar, not your Vivaldi Status Bar. Is your Vivaldi Status Bar visible? It should be at the very bottom of the browser by default, and contain things like the panel toggle, sync cloud, browser clock, zoom setting, page actions icon, etc. in it.

casc5962

@ayespy So, I could press sync on my Surface only and that would help after a crash (in theory)? I don't need to do it on my phone?

I'm not sure what clouds to look for, because I moved the controls to the top. Here's a picture of the entire screen.

What cloud am I looking for?

Pathduck

@casc5962 The cloud icon on the bottom left.

At this point I really recommend you have a read of the Help files, they are really good.
https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/tools/sync/
https://help.vivaldi.com/android/android-tools/android-sync/

Ayespy

@casc5962 Look at the bottom left of the screenshot you just posted. You will see the panel toggle, the "take a break" button and the Vivaldi sync cloud. It has three dots in it, meaning that you have clicked on it but not finished signing in to sync so that it could actually operate.

casc5962

@ayespy Done! Thank you very much

casc5962

@pathduck Yes, I need to go over that, thank you!

casc5962

@Ayespy I'm happy that I can use Vivaldi again and there's only one thing left: my Bookmarks. When I was copying things from the old folder (renamed Defaults) to the new one, Default, I focused on the icons that looked like a piece of paper, not the ones that looked like yellow folders. Was that maybe the problem? Is that why I still don't have my Bookmarks? What should I do?

Ayespy

@casc5962 The Bookmarks file is a file (not a folder) with no assigned icon, because it has no file extension. This is by design. I SUSPECT (but of course can't prove) that you copied the empty from from Default, the new folder, to Defaults, the old folder. If so, you wiped out the bookmark data in Defaults.

All is not lost, however. When not in use, the state of the files in Defaults is static unless you actively change them. This means that the state of Bookmarks.bak (right below Bookmarks) is intact, and it contains your Bookmarks info. SO...

COPY (don't move) the Bookmarks.bak file from the Defaults folder to your desktop.

Delete the ".bak" file extension from the file name.

Make sure Vivaldi is closed.

Copy the now-named "Bookmarks" file (that was Bookmarks.bak) from your desktop to the Default folder to replace the existing Bookmarks file and see if you get your bookmarks back on re-opening Vivaldi..

casc5962

@ayespy It worked!!! I'm ecstatic and I don't know how to thank you!

casc5962

@Ayespy Most of all, thank you for not giving up on me despite my lack of knowledge of software. I bet if you were talking to someone who knows what they are doing, this thread wouldn't be sooooo long. So, thank you for your patience with a newbie!

Ayespy

@casc5962 It's what I'm here for...

casc5962

@ayespy I appreciate it