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    • burnout426
      burnout426 Volunteer @RebeccaIceQueen last edited by

      @rebeccaicequeen said in Advanced sync settings it shows just a "please wait" and doesn't load:

      i not really wanting a new profile

      The part I linked to was about a standalone/portable install which just installs a separate Opera that has its own profile and doesn't interfere with your normal Opera. It can be used to test how things behave with a fresh profile and fresh program files without interfering with your normal Opera.

      I see you have now tried it though and that didn't help.

      all my bookmarks are on my main account. i don't want to risk losing them all.

      Goto the URL opera://bookmarks, click the drop-down at the bottom left, and export your bookmarks to an HTML file to back them up.

      Also, goto the URL opera://about, take note of the "profile" path, close Opera, browse to the profile folder in Windows Explorer (File Explorer) with file extensions and hidden items enabled at View -> Show, select both the "Bookmarks" and "BookmarksExtras" files, right-click the selection, choose "copy", right-click in a blank spot in the folder where you saved the bookmarks HTML file, and choose paste.

      That way, you have your bookmarks backed up in 2 different ways.

      To fix things, you might have to wipe out your sync data on the server. But, before you try that, what other things besides bookmarks do you need to back up? Passwords? Opened tabs? Anything else?

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      • RebeccaIceQueen
        RebeccaIceQueen @burnout426 last edited by

        @burnout426 yeah probably my passwords would need to be backed up cause not all of them i have recorded down in a note for wordpad.

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        • burnout426
          burnout426 Volunteer @RebeccaIceQueen last edited by

          @rebeccaicequeen

          For passwords, goto the URL opera://settings/passwords, click the 3 dots to the right of "saved passwords", and export your passwords to a CSV file. Then, open the CSV file in a text editor (Notepad for example), and make sure your passwords are there.

          Then, if you ever had to import that CSV file, in Opera, goto the URL opera://flags/#password-import, enable the import flag, restart Opera, goto the URL opera://settings/passwords, click the 3 dots to the right of "saved passwords", and import the CSV file.

          With that said, once you have your bookmarks and passwords backed up, goto https://www.sync.opera.com/ and click "reset passphrase". Then, restart Opera and log back into sync to see if everything from your Opera syncs back fine.

          If that works, you should be good to go. If not, reset your passphrase again, goto the URL opera://about, take note of the "profile" and "cache" paths, close Opera, rename or delete the profile and cache folders, start Opera, close Opera, go into the profile folder (that's new now), replace its "Bookmarks" and "BookmarksExtra" files with copies of your backed-up ones, and start Opera. Then, when Opera starts, import your passwords.

          Once you have your passwords and bookmarks in the new Opera profile, with your Sync data already reset from earlier, you can log into Sync and see if everything works fine then.

          If it still doesn't work, there might be some security software you have installed on Windows that's interfering. Or, it might be an issue with where you're located.

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          • burnout426
            burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

            Or, you can wait a few more days to see if the issue just clears itself up.

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            • burnout426
              burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

              Reddit thread about this https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/comments/yc7j81/broken_syncing/.

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              • RebeccaIceQueen
                RebeccaIceQueen @burnout426 last edited by

                @burnout426 I'll try all that in the morning cause as of right now it's 2:39am in the morning. Thanks for the steps on what to do. I'll respond to this post again in the morning or afternoon whenever I wake up to let ya know if the steps work or not. I know though that for the sync opera website though it's completely blank meaning the option to reset passphrase doesn't show so that I'd need to figure out something to fix for that. The screenshot I posted before showed just a blank website with the loading circle in the center. Which I know there is suppose to be 8 box icons and then above it the reset passphrase thing.

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                • burnout426
                  burnout426 Volunteer @RebeccaIceQueen last edited by burnout426

                  @RebeccaIceQueen

                  Understood. You could probably wait a bit before trying to reset things etc. since other users are now experiencing it too.

                  I know though that for the sync opera website though it's completely blank meaning the option to reset passphrase doesn't show

                  Yes, forgot since it's loading for me. Sorry. You can test in a different browser later just to see if the page loads there fine.

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                  • RebeccaIceQueen
                    RebeccaIceQueen @burnout426 last edited by

                    @burnout426 yeah I saw the Reddit post in which you posted my forum from here to it so at least I'm not the only one dealing with this.

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                    • ivansokerov1985
                      ivansokerov1985 last edited by

                      I uninstalled the app from the phone to refresh it. Then nothing syncs for almost two days. When I open opera sync the wheel spins, no delete options or any content. But the problem is that I have an old account and when I open it everything is fine, on the phone with the old account everything is synchronized. For the second time I will lose all bookmarks. I'm thinking of giving up opera, ad blocker isn't doing up to par either lately.

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                      • mrfroid
                        mrfroid last edited by

                        Same here.

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                        • leocg
                          leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                          Just tried here with Opera Stable and Opera GX and didn't get such issue.

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                          • RebeccaIceQueen
                            RebeccaIceQueen @leocg last edited by

                            @leocg not sure how you don't have the issue. maybe it a country based issue? cause it still not working for me when i tried opening it in settings.

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                            • leocg
                              leocg Moderator Volunteer @RebeccaIceQueen last edited by

                              @rebeccaicequeen The problem may be happening on a specific server, so not everyone is being affected.

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                              • RebeccaIceQueen
                                RebeccaIceQueen @leocg last edited by

                                @leocg that could be too. but it would say so on the status website if it was a server based issue

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                                • leocg
                                  leocg Moderator Volunteer @RebeccaIceQueen last edited by

                                  @rebeccaicequeen The status page doesn't seem to list the Sync servers. And there was some issues on some Opera sites/services recently according to that page.

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                                  • RebeccaIceQueen
                                    RebeccaIceQueen @leocg last edited by

                                    @leocg i haven't been on website to know that so i will check.

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                                    • leon2ta
                                      leon2ta last edited by

                                      Same issue, from Turkey.

                                      Opera Version: 92.0.4561.30
                                      Update Stream: Stable
                                      System: Windows 10 64-bit
                                      Chromium Version: 106.0.5249.119

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                                      • burnout426
                                        burnout426 Volunteer @leon2ta last edited by

                                        @leon2ta said in Advanced sync settings it shows just a "please wait" and doesn't load:

                                        Turkey

                                        Where's everyone else at that has this problem?

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                                        • RebeccaIceQueen
                                          RebeccaIceQueen @burnout426 last edited by

                                          @burnout426 Canada Nova Scotia. and still has the same issue. i seen in another post someone went as far as to make themselves a new account but i rather not go there just yet to do that and make a new account and hope it works of the sync between my pc and laptop, even though i have my bookmarks and passwords backup it just for the fact that my account has been active for so long i use to it and to make changes with a new account just don't seem right. it don't fix a problem but bypasses it to making new accounts that supposedly fixes things.

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                                          • Bp785
                                            Bp785 @burnout426 last edited by

                                            @burnout426 Australia. I've worked out it's my account. I created a new one and sync.opera.com works. I have no idea what to do from here. Starting a new account is not a solution.

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