@burnout426 said in Opera Sync:

@janmlar If you want your current desktop Opera to be the main seed (I guess you'd say), you can try the following:

• Sign out of Sync on all devices.

• In your desktop Opera, goto the URL opera://about, take note of the "profile" path, close Opera and delete the "Sync data" folder in the profile folder. Then, delete the sync.opera.com folder in the "IndexedDB" folder in the profile folder.

• Then, in another browser, log into https://www.sync.opera.com/ and choose to reset your passphrase to wipe out all your Sync data on the server. Note that this won't reset your Opera account password. It'll just wipe out your Sync data which will include wiping out your custom sync passphrase if you were using one.

• Then start your desktop Opera, log in to your Opera account, enable what to sync on the opera://settings/syncSetup page and close the sync setup page to initiate syncing to make that Opera the first to sync.

That should make it so syncing other Operas doesn't wipe out any of your stuff in that first Opera where things from all Operas should sync well. But, no guarantees and always make backups and export things first.

In other words, you can start over with Sync like that to fix issues with old data being stuck or data on your desktop Opera being wiped out by other devices. Sync can go crazy sometimes.

However, that won't magically make speed dials from other devices sync the way you expect. You still have to goto the URL opera://bookmarks and copy over speed dials from other devices to your "speed dial" folder if you want them to show on the start page in your current Opera.

Thank you!!
(still: why dosen't Opera that has the best customizations do a simple "button" for this!!

@Himmelsschlingel said in Opera Sync:

@janmlar Sync in Opera works a little bit different as you'd expect to do.
That means: Speed Dials from different devices are kept separate, so that each of your devices has its own. This is, at least from my humble experience, very handy as you might not want your phone have the same as its screen is much smaller.
But as you're talking about two computers the situation is quite different and you want to have the same settings on each of them as you might have in Chrome, Edge or Vivaldi.
To my best knowledge this is only possible in Opera manually, at least when talking about speed dials and bookmarks.
So, when you go to your bookmarks menu which appears as the heart symbol on the sidebar you can easily chose to see the complete bookmarks by clicking on the link down below. This triggers a new tab to open where you get access to all bookmarks from all devices. Chose the one that you want to sync, copy all folders you want to have on the device you're using, and paste it into its speed dial page, deleting all the folders there that you don't want have.
The caveat with this is: Whenever you change anything on one device's speed dial this won't sync automatically to the speed dial on your other device. But of course you'll have access to all them from each device. So you must either replicate the change you made on one device on the other, unfortunately. At least this is how I know to do it.

When you're talking about your other settings including theme and wallpaper, beware that the latter two aren't synced either. And also not all of, but some of the settings are synced, best you check all that are important to adjust them if necessary.

I hope you get along with these steps.

The other day I was brave and thought I'd try and sync my main comp. (Only comp1 no other ) and the old stuff came back!!! (knowing "sync" I had made an backup)
How do I get the "sync" on the cloud to store the look I have now in opera (speeddial and stuff)?
Is it to sync back the old stuff and then manually change it back while "sync" is on?
Why don't have a button in sync options that says "copy this "look" to sync" then you can togle it on or of....
Guess "sync" isn't for me.....

Thanks for answer!!!

Thank you for the answer!
But I don't understand what it means?
Comp1: using every day
Comp2: using a couple of days a year
Want comp2(opera) to have all new stuff from comp1 when using it.
Using the same opera accont
Is it possible and if so...how do I do?
Mvh Jan

I have two computers where one is the computer I want to sync from (the other I want Opera to look like computer one)
The last time I synced it was the other way around and my main computer got all the old junk from computer two....took several hours to get it back the way I wanted it.
After that I haven't tried any more....
Maybe I don't understand how to do it, but the best thing would be if there was a "button" in the sync settings where I could mark which computer/opera should absolutely not be changed.
Mvh Jan

@cameronspringfield
A ugly solution thats works for me. I use "taskkill" in a shortcut in my taskbar.
ex. I have three monitors where I have Opera open....I press the taskkill (that I made to force close opera), next morning I start Opera and they start on all three at the same time.
One click to stop and one to start and I don't need to move tabs around.

@janmlar Ok, found a way my self....

Is there any way to start opera on 3 monitors/screens with one click.
I have a pc (win10) and 4 monitors connected and now when I start opera it start on one screen....then a have to take a tab and drag it to one of the screens and then again to the other...
Would be nice if there was a way to get it started on 3 (or 4) of my screens at the same time with one click.