I lost all My Flow content

Mormani

Mormani

Today, I was browsing on Opera for Android. I sent some links to My Flow, and after a few hours, I turned on my laptop to access those websites. Unfortunately, when I opened My Flow on the Opera Browser, I encountered an error page.

I didn't take a screenshot of the page because I thought the available options would fix it — but they didn't. I also don't remember the exact messages well, so I'll try to write something close to what I saw.

The page displayed a UFO image with an error message below and two buttons: one labeled "Recarregar" (Reload/Refresh) and the other "Restaurar" (Restore/Recover).

I tried reloading multiple times, but the same error page kept appearing. Then, I clicked the second button, which triggered a modal with the following message:

"We will try to recover your content, but if it's not possible, you need to reconnect using another device (the history on other devices will not be deleted [...])."

So, I clicked OK, and it disconnected my Opera account from the browser and disabled synchronization on Android — completely wiping My Flow content on both devices. After that, I reconnected my account, but My Flow was empty.

I searched both Google and this website for solutions to recover the content, but I found nothing. I also came across many topics about My Flow content being lost, and it's shocking how, after all these years, Opera still cannot save My Flow data properly — unlike passwords, pinboards, bookmarks, etc.

I've lost my content multiple times before due to connection issues. The only reason I didn't lose it more often was that I had 4 devices using My Flow, so at least one always retained the content for the others. But now, I only have 2 devices, and it’s frustrating to see this issue persist.

Sorry for the wall of text, but earlier I was really frustrated with this problem and felt the need to share it.

Opera version: 117.0.5408.53
Windows 10 version: 22H2

Opera for Android version: 87.7.4607.83311 (com.opera.browser)