History being cleared by itself
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Vivaldi 6.6.3271.53 (Stable channel) (64-bit) Revision 9bc0253dc7c6d57292697b26e13e6579916e51bf OS Windows 10 Version 22H2 (Build 19045.4170) JavaScript V8 12.2.281.23 User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Command Line "C:\Users\Lance\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe" --save-page-as-mhtml --restart --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end Executable Path C:\Users\Lance\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe Profile Path C:\Users\Lance\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Default Active Variations 5e3a236d-4113a79e
My Vivaldi history seems to be getting cleared by itself and I am not sure when it happens or how. For example my current history only goes as far back as today. I didn't clear it.
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@kanishknishar
Hi, some user report it show only one day in the view but the history is still there.
This can happen if you set the history for one Year or forever.
Change the view to List, for example.
Check if the setting for Save Browsing Data is not set to Session Only in Settings > Privacy.Cheers, mib
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Saving is set to forever.
Also no the history is literally only saved for today:
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@kanishknishar
Cant reproduce on Vivaldi 6.6.3271.53, Windows 11, set to Forever too.
Did you change the view? -
@mib2berlin Yeah I suspected as much. I am not even sure what to provide here except saying my history gets deleted by itself inexplicably.
"change the view" of history?
That wouldn't matter in terms of auto-deleting history no?
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@kanishknishar Do you use any privacy extension in Vivaldi, i remember from last year that DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials could cause broken history, or a external tool to clean like CCLeaner or Antivirus or Internet Security something lese?
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I use Windows Defender and these 4 extensions:
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@kanishknishar
It does, user report monthly view is empty but change to List view and back solve this.
Did you restart Vivaldi?
Check the size of the file "History" in:C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Default
It should be at least 50MB if it is some month old.
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I have similar problems with history, quite ridiculous behaviour. I did as @mib2berlin suggested, selected month. Restarted browser and got history from 2021 to date. I didn't spot the 2021 to start with and was scratching my head at some of the results!
Surely this behaviour is a bug and needs fixing! -
@ChrisAO123
Hi, I can reproduce it.
Normally this delete the complete history, seems to be a bug.
Maybe wait some time before you report this to the bug tracker.
You can delete your history manually but this should not be necessary. -
@mib2berlin said in History being cleared by itself:
least 50MB if it is some month old.
Then you know if the data is really deleted or not showIt's 1.37GiB for me.
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@kanishknishar
Hm, this looks like several Years to me.
The history file is a database file, you can open these files with Sqlite Browser, for example.
I would download and install Vivaldi as standalone install and copy the file over from your default install.
If you can open/see all in the standalone install something is broken in your default install, if not the file is maybe corrupt.
This can happen if Vivaldi crash or a user downgrade Vivaldi.
My knowledge of databases is very limited but is possible to repair databases.
I cant help here.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin Oh whoops. I wrote the size of the folder. The file itself is 50 MiB.
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@kanishknishar
Argh, then it is empty more or less, the database structure is 20-30 MB alone.
If you don't have a backup all is lost, some cleaning software do such things user reported.
I am very sorry for you. -
@mib2berlin I don't use stuff like CCCleaner though.
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The history got emptied yet again.
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@kanishknishar
Hi, something on your system does this, maybe an extension.
A user report "Minimal Theme for Twitter/X" Delete user Data, for example.
I have 12 Vivaldi installs, some update several times a week, the snapshot ~weekly, I never lost history ever.
I backup my profile folder weekly, a power loss or OS crash can happen anytime and you lost data.
Maybe another user have an idea why this happen, I am out of ideas.Cheers, mib
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History is not cleared; Vivaldi 6.5 introduced a bug where history initially shows only the current day and takes forever to load the rest, 10 minutes, maybe half an hour, of full CPU usage, depending on the size of your history and computer specs, it may never load. A number of other threads:
Vivalidi won't save history other than current day | Vivaldi Forum
History before update to 6.5 inaccessible | Vivaldi Forum
Vivaldi deleted all history | Vivaldi Forum
Of course, people don't think Vivaldi can be as incredibly inefficient as this and assume their history is deleted. Apparently nobody at Vivaldi developer team keeps a long history because Vivaldi with a large history is borderline unusable due to many such issues (though I have been still using it because keeping a long history is important to me).
Fortunately, a fix for another big history bug is coming (see 6.2 - 6.6 | Slow auto-complete History suggestions | Vivaldi Forum), this one's been bothering me even more. I don't know if and when they'll fix this bug, but hopefully they'll take a look at the other big history issues soon.
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Oh, now I see that your history file is 50 MiB and not 1.37 GiB. Then it is probably not this issue and your history indeed got cleared. Sorry about the confusion.
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@kanishknishar I think the history file is corrupted... too small for the forever setting. If you will, do a backup and remove it from (with browser closed) vivaldi > user data > default (for main profile). It will be created again. I would set the history to one year too.