Pinboards disappearing

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by This post is deleted!

[kathyb]

kathyb @pinpointedu last edited by

@pinpointedu It's a disappointing thing to say it politely that the pinboards are a "selling" feature promoted by Opera, only not to work. I have begun using a browser extension called Notion and Pocket. There's also Notebook. Those are pretty solid backups to Pinboards. I think Opera should be responsible enough to FIX the Pinboards. I lost all my students boards.

[A Former User]

A Former User @kathyb last edited by

@kathyb Thanks a lot for the heads-up on Notion and Pocket extension.

[elboxd]

elboxd @leocg last edited by

@leocg Hi, is there a way to backup a pinboard? Official or not, maybe an extension or something.
I have important info on several boards and I'd like to make a backup.

Thanks in advance!

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @elboxd last edited by

@elboxd You can try backing up the Bookmarks file. Using Sync is a possibility too.

[kathyb]

kathyb @leocg last edited by

@leocg Hi. Backing up bookmarks has nothing to do with the complaint about the pinboards disappearing. The browser totes about all their features. They all should work and be dependable. Especially when they're talking about sharing and collaborating using the boards. I've been complaining about this issue for months. I'm also not alone as the very same thing has happened to others. They take the time to create, and then it's just gone. I'm not going through the hassle of backing up, when there are plenty of extensions available to organize what the Opera browser can't fix. If I'm not mistaken I've gone back and forth with you previously on this very same issue... pinboards disappear.

[kathyb]

kathyb @Guest last edited by

@qo-d Pocket is busy, and Notion is not only an extension, you can download the application to your desktop/laptop as well. The extension Notebook by Zoho does the same as Notion and you can design your notebook covers as well. My child has been using them for a year for school, at least they are dependable where Pinboards vanish. Enjoy!

[kathyb]

kathyb @elboxd last edited by

@elboxd You can not back up your pinboards. Favorites yes, pinboards no. Use an extension. Again, Notebook by Zoho is an extension as well as an app you can download. Notion is the same, and Pocket is just an extension. I prefer the first 2 as I can just use the application. You can also design your notebook covers.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @kathyb last edited by

@kathyb The question was about how to back up pinboard and that's what I answered.

[Yashintaro]

Yashintaro last edited by

I love the concept of the pinboards and love how accessible Opera GX has made it, but, when sharing my Pinboard with Friends/Family, we noticed you can not change someone's permissions to allow them to edit/add to the pinboard. I originally planned on making one with my sister for games to allow easy access to news/official websites, for the both of us, but instead, she's going to have to send the links to me and I'm going to need to be on my computer since pinboards are also not yet on mobile.

[Zuldaris]

Zuldaris @kmielczarczyk last edited by

@kmielczarczyk So, if I clear browser data it clears my pinboards too? Hell, why not just clear my bookmarks too, uninstall Opera, and shut my computer down too. That would make just as much sense!

[kathyb]

kathyb last edited by

@leocg Saving to your favorites does not save or back up your pinboards. Adding them to favorites/sync/backup yields absolutely nothing because they still vanish. Again, they are useless and very unreliable.

[kathyb]

kathyb @Zuldaris last edited by

@zuldaris That's how it goes. I mean the pinboards were great, until you clear your cache. They tried to blame it on installed programs.. lol.. no I used Opera's clean up itself. Many others have lost them and asked the same if backing up. Again, I chose a much more reliable extension that works just as well. Opera should WARN people that this pinboard crap is still in "beta" testing..But, they don't. They just suck you in and then you find out the hard way.

[ModusOperandi]

ModusOperandi last edited by

All of a sudden my pinboards disappeared !!! Completely !!! And no, I couldn't find them back under "favorites", Any explanation ??? any solution ??? Thanks in advance

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @ModusOperandi last edited by

@modusoperandi Check above.

[fabestah]

fabestah last edited by fabestah

This issue seems to still be around. I checked my pinboards this morning and all of them (20+) were just gone, even though I didn't use any system cleaners nor did I install or change anything vital about my system. As it happens I even had synchronization turned on as long as I've been using Opera and it didn't help whatsoever. I even have a bookmark to my pinboards page and it also leads me to an entirely empty pinboard section.
As many other users already stated here in this thread I'm pretty disappointed, I also saw the Opera pinboards as a great alternative to other note apps and extensions but such a substantial bug is completely unacceptable.
I'd quite mission-critical information stored in some of my pinboards, lost everything now and I know that it's kind of my fault because I didn't back up that information elsewhere but stuff like this simply shouldn't happen.
In addition, you're not even able to back up your pinboards in any comfortable way and backing it up by copying it to another file isn't just as easy as CRTL+A, copy and paste it into that file. Every time you want to do a backup you have to click into every single pinboard headline and text field manually, which is extremely tiring, at least for me.
All in all, I think:

1. Such a major bug/issue should've been patched as soon as the first person reported about it, it shouldn't be a thing even months after a forum thread like this one was opened.
2. You should be able to backup your pinboards to a specific file of your choice.
3. Synchronization should just work and save all of your pinboards.
4. If stuff like this has happened you should be clearly notified/it should be understandably stated somewhere before using such a broken feature.

In case someone found a way to recover your pinboards somehow, I would be more than happy if someone could contact me or answer my post here

[ppclarke]

ppclarke last edited by

After the last update all my pinboards have disappeared. When I click on pinboards I just get the start page. I had a lot of pinboards and I would hate to lose them all. Any help would be appreciated.

[luschuab]

luschuab @ppclarke last edited by

@ppclarke I also lost my pinboards. Did you solve your problem?

[ppclarke]

ppclarke @luschuab last edited by

@luschuab No, unfortunately I did not. I got no replies, but from what I gather from other similar posts, unless your opera account was backed up, they are gone forever. Seemingly pinboards are still in beta mode so no guarantee it won't happen again.

[kathyb]

kathyb last edited by leocg

I posted about this a year ago, and here I am again. Pinboards! Why on earth offer them? Once again, my materail is gone. I guess you just don't clear your browsing history/cache and keep your machine tuned all the while being able to keep your pinboards. I'm disgusted with Opera! No Where on the download page where it says oh.. look... pinboards... does it say, you may lose your material if you run a cleaner. The numerous people that have lost their material because of this is nuts that Opera would let it go on.. Oh wait, it's in Beta , so that excuses their lack of transparency. So I went and read the reviews, I'm not the only one complaining. Opera emails me playing stupid, oh can you send us a screenshot, when is this happening? Use your own browser and find out. Go ask all the countless other people having the same issues.

The only thing safe is flow for retaining material and as I said early on, extensions notion, webclipper