Stupidity took over.......everything gone

IBleed4Thee

No I moved it to the desktop.

Now it's not showing on there.

Pathduck

@IBleed4Thee Those "instructions" are "8 fixes" so I'm going to assume you did step 1. If you followed it you should have a folder named "Default" on your desktop which is your old profile. Unless you renamed it in which case the renamed folder is your old profile.

Also goes to show you should not follow any random "fixes" page you find on the internet. Especially if you have no clue about file management and no idea how to restore it when it borks your computer.

Apparently, the "author" of that article is a "Windows Toubleshooting [sic] Expert"...

EDIT: So it's "not showing on there". It's gone, you messed up - start again, sorry for your loss of data.

IBleed4Thee

@Pathduck

Saying I messed up is putting it lightly. More like "F" up.

Now I see my mistake. I thought I had to follow all 8. Been a bad week and today just make it worse.

Lesson learned the hard way. No way my elder brain will be able to recreated the lost passwords, bookmarks, etc.

Thank you for your help.

mib2berlin

@IBleed4Thee
I'm very sorry, did the folder perhaps end up in the trash?

Pathduck

@IBleed4Thee OK maybe you're lucky and find your lost Default folder. If it somehow got deleted, it's gone and no magic can restore it.

If you had enabled Sync your bookmarks/passwords etc could've been saved.
https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/tools/sync/

Next time you're having problems "loading pages" it would be better to come here first instead of googling for some random useless guide probably written by an AI. Usually such issues are easily solved without having to nuke your profile.

paul1149

If you moved the profile folder to Desktop, it should still be there. Two possibilities: as an icon it is off-screen and not visible, or it for some reason it is a hidden file. To get around both possibilities, view your Desktop in File Manager, and if it still isn't there go into FM's options and choose View Hidden Files.

mib2berlin

@paul1149
Good idea, App Data the root folder is hidden, maybe it's hereditary.

IBleed4Thee

@mib2berlin

Thank you. I did a search for every folder and it's nowhere to be found. Trash was the first place I looked.

Sorry for the delay in replying. Our communities interest has been down for about 18 hours. Grr.

IBleed4Thee

@paul1149

It's not on the desktop and I checked File Manager/view hidden files and it's not there.

Thank you.

IBleed4Thee

@mib2berlin

It's gone. I searched everywhere and no luck.

Lesson learned.

Will check to see if I enabled Sync and hopefully I did.

Sorry for the delay in replying our communities internet has been down.