Pinboards disappearing
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Ardony last edited by
Despite treading on eggshells to avoid pinboards their disappearing, two of my five have vanished . I get a message to say they "were deleted". Well, certainly not by me.
The whole problem could be so easily overcome if they were stored on the user's computer instead of on Opera servers and only accessible via a link that's so easily broken. How hard could that be? Cookies are stored on the user's device, so why not do this with pinboards, then none of these stupid irritations would occur.
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Moved from Opera for Windows by leocg
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Ardony last edited by
They are only links to Opera servers, because the links start with
https://pinboard.opera.com/view/1
So no amount of backing up will enable the uiser to restore the actual pinboard if some miserable beggar with access to the server decides to delete what the link refers to. or if an error of some kind either breaks the links or corrupts or deletes the p[inboard.
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Ardony last edited by
Yes, I have seen, it thanks—a couple of years ago from memory (noted that, unhelpfully, posts on the forum do not have a time stamp). It's no more use now than it was then. I mean, what's the use of a "hidden file in bookmarks"? Why hidden? This is about as helpful as a parachute that opens after the first bounce.
If indeed you believe pinboards are stored on the user's device, as you appear to suggest, please tell us where.
Oh, also noted are the references to using Sync as a form of backup. Great idea, if only sync would work, but it refuses to. I posted about that a couple of months ago but no-one bothered to respond.
I wonder how many users have given up, exasperated with Opera because the marvellous features it offers, eg. pinboards and sync, are buggy, fragile, and time-wasting when the you have to spend hours trying to work around the flaws, to say nothing of the hours spent setting up pinboards only to have them wasted when they are arbitrarily deleted for no reason. These issues should have been dealt with years ago.