How to control sync direction?
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Ardony last edited by leocg
When I first installed Opera I had no trouble syncing my Android phone to the PC. At some stage it stopped working, and now when I try to sync via the QR code it copies the old bookmarks from the phone and overwrites the newer ones on the PC, when I want to do the opposite. This is driving me mad. Is it possible to force it to sync from the computer to the phone? Would deleting all bookmarks on the phone do it?
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ledsalesoz last edited by
@ardony Yes, it's frigging stupid to be quite honest. I set up a new instance of Opera on a virtual machine the other day, and wanted to bring bookmarks, pwds etc across, so I turned on sync on my main version in order to update what was in my Opera account (for later syncing to the new instance) and it grabbed a bunch of bookmarks etc from years ago that must have been in my Opera account, and overwrote some of my updated bookmarks for those sites. It added stuff to the bookmarks bar from many years ago, added in very old tabs closed years ago and generally made a right bloody mess.
Old data should never, ever overwrite new data, ever! If there is a conflict, then the browser should ask which is the correct one, or, as the OP wanted, it should ask which direction to sync.
I'm having serious doubts about the mental capacity of the Opera devs, given the idiotic changes that have happened with this latest update, it's like they not only don't test the thing, they also have no sensible logic in their brains.
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Ardony last edited by
Thanks ledsalesoz. A small comfort to learn that I'm not the only one with this maddening issue. As you say, why would any sync software overwrite newer files with older? On that basis, it seems likely that deleting all the phone bookmarks would simply result in all the PC bookmarks being wiped. I've wasted too much time repeatedly restoring the PC bookmarks, and I'm really not adept at this sort of thing.
Such a shame they can't (or won't) get this right. It's brilliant when it works, but a nightmare otherwise. Seems like a case of spoiling the ship for a ha'porth of tar.
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ledsalesoz last edited by
@ardony The frustrating thing is that Opera is basically the best featured browser out there, I've used it for many years because it is the only one that does what I need, but if they keep messing with it and screwing it up, I guess I'm going to have to go back to FF (shudder) which would be a sad state of affairs.
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Ardony last edited by
Couldn't agree more. I have that trouble (tinkering for the sake of it) with Thunderbird, so tend not to update if I can help it. Ditto FF—still keep an ancient version (56) for a single purpose, because updating makes a mess of Roboform that I'm not clever enough to resolve. Cheers from NZ.
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