Help!Help!What's on my reading list is lost!!!
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Hi! I'm a Vivaldi user from China and I've been using your browser for over a year. I really like your browser, it's highly customizable and the development team can always update it satisfactorily according to the user's needs. I'll always support your browsers, but first I'm running into a tricky bit of trouble.
Since you introduced the reading list feature, I really like to add pages of interest to my reading list that I can browse and follow in the future. I've added about 2,000 to 3,000 pages (or more) since this feature was launched.
But just now (at about 19:00 on October 10, 2022, Beijing time), after I exited the browser normally, I opened the browser again, but I suddenly found that my reading list was emptied! ! ! There is nothing left, it is the default state. I was terrified at the time, because there were really a lot of web pages that I really liked and interested in. I almost used the reading list function as a bookmark function, but there was nothing, like there was never anything. Existed the same.
Later I tried restarting the browser a few times and activated the VPN (due to the well-known Great Firewall, I can't always successfully sync the browser's data in China, including my speech on the Vivaldi forum also requires a VPN to connect of). After restarting my browser after I started the VPN, I found a piece of content back on my reading list, which took my breath away. But I also found that it was only a part, not all, that the content before about July 4th was successfully loaded back, and the content after that was still not restored.
This makes me suspect it's a sync system issue, because honestly my Vivaldi hasn't synced fully properly for a while, and it keeps telling me sync errors or something like that when I'm not using the VPN. But before that, my data never had any problems, and during this period, I used VPN to browse the Internet intermittently. During this period, the synchronization system has the opportunity to perform a successful synchronization, so I think the synchronization system will not appear. The problem, at least that's what I thought until today.
So I really hope your technical team can help me get back the data stored in the reading list, it's really important to me! ! ! It contains the people I like, the items I like, the content I have been following, etc. It is very important! ! ! I'm guessing that the data is still stored on your server and not completely overwritten. If the data cannot be synced back normally, you can also provide me with a copy of the data (using Excel or other methods).
Or can I get this data back locally? I'm not sure what the problem is if you guys can provide a way, so I came to the forum to speak to you guys.
Originally I was trying to update Vivaldi to version 5.4 (I just updated to version 5.3 the other day), but after this problem, I plan to do nothing and add new content to the reading list until the data is retrieved here, hope this helps me get the data back.
Please, please, really please! Hope to hear back, thanks a lot!
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(The sync page in my Vivaldi settings shows that the download is successful, but the upload status shows a conflict with other client data, so the upload fails, but I've never used Vivaldi on other PCs.)
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A post for help, but I posted it in another section, sorry, I am not very familiar with the operation of the forum, I am worried that no one will see it, so I will post it again in this section, I hope it can be paid attention to !
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/80051/help-help-what-s-on-my-reading-list-is-lost?_=1665404062232
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PPathduck moved this topic from Sync on -
Can someone give me an answer? It's been 3 days...
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@JerrysRachels I don’t know what happened to the content of your reading list. It has never reset for me. Anyway, it’s not meant to be used as bookmark replacement and you should always back up your data, no matter whether you use sync or not. So, do you happen to have a backup?
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@luetage Unfortunately, I don't have a backup, I've never been in the habit of backing up browser data, and maybe I should get into that habit from today. Then you're right, reading lists are not a substitute for bookmarks, so I've started storing pages of interest directly into bookmarks from the day I lost my reading list.
Now I don't have any hope of getting the data back, fortunately there is no problem with my history, maybe when I need to find what I lost, I can start from the history.
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@luetage Wow, you look like an old Vivaldi user! Really cool.
