Why does Vivaldi not sync regulary?
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Hello,
I'm facing sync issues quiet often.
Today, I have added a bookmark on my android device around 5.30 pm and now it is 20.20pm and it is still not synced to my desktop device.
Last sync on desktop device was at 5.15pm.
Any idea why this is happening frequently? How can I force Vivaldi to sync once there was a change in my boomarks?
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@lakman1 At
vivaldi://sync-internalspage there is a button namedTriggerGetUpdatesto enforce a re-sync.
If mobile is not synced often, check android battery/data saving options for the Vivaldi app.
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I know the TriggerGet Update Button from the sync settings.
But this cant be the solution. I would expect from a sync function that it syncs the changes automatically and that i dont have to trigger the update manually.
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@lakman1 My last sync update was a minute ago. I believe that it updates about every 10 minutes.
Edit: Sync updated again five minutes later.
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It can take some minutes (up to 10) until sync starts. I think, at this time it is to reduce Sync server load.
I sometimes see that a Vivaldi restart will force a sync.
One Vivaldi backend dev said that a better notify to connected browser will be added near future.
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I actually wanted to ask the same question as well.
It happens sometimes that the list of tabs from "device A" I can see on "device B" is not updated (it should be the last but one sync).
To force re-syncing I usually close and reopen the browser (also in my mobile phone), but this is not very convenient.
The page vivaldi://sync-internals seems good (I did not know about it), but a some direct button would make the thing easier.
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It seems to sync regularly here. I synced my other desktop, and everything is exactly as expected.
(but posting this comment was unexpected. I found the 2-minute noob wall. Can't make posts closer together than 120 seconds until I gain reputation. Didn't know that was going to happen.)
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@falconeer
Hi, this is a anti spam system Askimet, if you have more posts and/reputation it disappear.Welcome to the forum, mib
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We're aware of an issue that can delay sync up to
eightfourone hours. It will affect users differently based on their usage patterns. We hope to have it sorted out soon. The workaround suggested by @Hadden89 is your best option at the moment. I'm sorry about the inconvenience. -
I'll chime in here. I have a Windows PC with two android devices. Sync can be delayed by much more than four hours. Sometimes it says sync was done recently, but clearly nothing was updated. I did a force sync on one of my Android devices, and now I have two sets of synced tabs listed for my windows pc - on labelled 45 minutes ago, and the other 12 hours ago. Please fix this, as sync is considered a basic and important functionality for a browser. Thanks!
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@daniel I guess this also affetcs Linux (this is a Windows subforum), does it not? I guess it has not been fixed yet. It quite often happens to me that my phone does not get synced for hours up to time, I am glad it is a known thing.
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We are still working on it. The max delay is reduced to one hour, in the worst case. Restarting the browser updates it immediately. A fix to make it reliably update near-instantly is in the works.
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@daniel Good to know this
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good to hear indeed
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Profane post deleted. User is reminded to observe the Vivaldi Community Code of Conduct.
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I share the frustration (i recently saw a 23 hour delay I think) but namecalling and profanities do not help anything. You can look up the needed passwords on your phone too.
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@felagund
Hi, a user publish a 3 liner .js script to handle this with a command chain and an icon.
I will edit here if you interested.
If I add or remove something sync is updated immediately or after some minutes, 23 hour is strange.Cheers, mib
EDIT:
May other user are interested too:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/83096/sync-button-trigger-getupdates/33?_=1711158136087 -
Thanks. The thing is I am usually away from my desktop on my phone, wanting to read something I opened on the desktop, when I would need such a button. The phone says the time when the desktop was synchronized - at the time I had not used the desktop for multiple hours, so it could not have synced. However, a number of tabs were not synced, so the last sync had happened some time before I stopped using the desktop. There was also some problem with Android browser, the panel button was gone for some time, until it reappeared mysteriously later.
In practice, I am more concerned about the ability to open and close tabs remotely ("send to phone", "close on desktop") and multiselect ("open these five tabs on the phone"), which would make sync a lot more useful to me.
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@felagund
Hi, the send to device was removed from the Chromium developer, it seems to much work to maintain such a feature in the future.
Adding it back should no be not be the problem.
On mobile I always have a speed dial with vivaldi://sync-internals, if I know I need something on other devices I use this.
On desktop you can use the windows panel for synced tab or even search in the address bar for tabs, no idea if this work in the Quick Menu.
All tabs are on all devices anyway, send 5 tabs make no sense to me.
Cheers, mib
