Speeds Dials gone? Don't worry, they are not lost!

Readers' comments

Comments left by My Opera members under the original post: the first 50, as archived.

• Ruarí Ødegaardruario3. June 2011, 11:48

  There is also a thread about this on our forums.

• Muhammad-Ubaid razamubaidr3. June 2011, 11:52

  

• nimu_channimuchan3. June 2011, 11:52

  Ok!! Thank You!!

• Gereford3. June 2011, 11:55

  Thanks

• dengwenwei3. June 2011, 12:06

  R u sure? no new build today?

• ll0r3nt3tja3. June 2011, 12:10

  I want to keep the score fast or faster panel of the 11.01 version and the new versions that conform to the icons of the website, and could use the old scoring quickly without setting the icons?

• earth013. June 2011, 12:36

  There is an alignment bug in opera:config pages.
  Checkboxes are not aligned with text input fields.

• avaer3. June 2011, 12:54

  Thank you!!! It worked also for 11.11.

• Pramod Ghugegeeneeyes3. June 2011, 12:58

  whew! I usually take it in my stride but got all worked up this time.. Thanks for the quickfix

• Ashus3. June 2011, 13:37

  hmm. Fine, but all my saved passwords are gone (Opera sync caused this, and wow, there was no "wand.dat.presync" like speeddial makes). My backup was quite old, as I found out later, cause the full system backup was not completed successfully even once in last 3 months.
  
  Also, window resizing doesn't work properly in preview pane of Roundcube webmail in the latest build.

• Luchs3. June 2011, 13:51

  I'm also having this problem since the speed dial got updated. The entries disappear randomly and when I add them again manually, duplicate entries appear a few days later.

• Yogurth3. June 2011, 14:00

  Workaround is not working for me, unfortunately. Speed Dial was restored only partially.

• Yogurth3. June 2011, 14:06

  I will make a suggestion that IMHO be very useful for situations with data loss(Speed dial, passwords....etc)
  
  Since sync is working without backups, it is very easy with unstable builds that if unaware of potential bugs like speed dial loss or wand loss, You could easily install buggy build on all computers that You have and by doing that completely wipe out Your Sync Data.
  
  My suggestion is that Opera adds a feature where You could select number of older copies to keep online, 3 for instance so You can go back easily few days and restore Your sync data.

• Ruarí Ødegaardruario3. June 2011, 14:16

  Originally posted by Yogurth:

  You could easily install buggy build on all computers that You have and by doing that completely wipe out Your Sync Data.

  
  
  Every snapshot has a big red warning about data loss for reasons such as this. Of course we try and prevent such problems from happening but there are no guarantees. You should still really be doing your own regular backups if you want to try out test versions or any software.

• MUSCLFURPEX3. June 2011, 14:20

  Thanks for the fix but why don't the speedials ever come back as they are arranged.Not that this is a major problem but they shouldn't have to be rearranged every time

• Francesco De Domenicofrankdd893. June 2011, 14:26

  this bug affects even the 11.11 version!
  

• minho3. June 2011, 14:28

  I change configuration here but labels on my stable and next release are different. It's a know bug?
  
  win 7 pro sp1 64 bits

• Anton DiazAntonDiaz3. June 2011, 14:35

  Originally posted by frankdd89:

  this bug affects even the 11.11 version!

  
  since 11.10

• Yogurth3. June 2011, 14:39

  Originally posted by ruario:

  Originally posted by Yogurth:

  You could easily install buggy build on all computers that You have and by doing that completely wipe out Your Sync Data.

  
  
  Every snapshot has a big red warning about data loss for reasons such as this. Of course we try and prevent such problems from happening but there are no guarantees. You should still really be doing your own regular backups if you want to try out test versions or any software.

  
  
  I am aware of course of both warning and manual data backup, however I do believe that multiple online backup would be great feature for every user out there, just in case something bad happens.

• FavDjiXas3. June 2011, 14:49

  Is there any way to fix RSS delete bug?

• Tiago Wakabayashiozoratsubasa3. June 2011, 15:21

  Nice, but I was waiting a new build =(

• hundredorzero3. June 2011, 15:36

  No problem. I always backup my data.

• samMD3. June 2011, 17:05

  I'm glad the bug got noticed that I filed for this issue...

• James438james4383. June 2011, 17:36

  I used an alternate method to bring my speed dials back. I went into my stable version of Opera and rearranged the position of all my speed dials and let opera sync do its work and then put everything back the way it was. When I opened Opera Next I let Opera sync do its duty and my speed dials were restored.
  
  I have only had to do this twice now sice trying Opera Next.

• Vincentonmeown3. June 2011, 18:46

  Cool it works for me!
  
  ThanX a lot!

• VasjaVasja723. June 2011, 19:00

  ruario, what about "Thank you!" for Anton Diaz?
  Or do you believe in your authoring solution to this bug?

• TournerLaughtman3. June 2011, 19:07

  I solved this a couple times by deleting "Operaprefs.ini" and deactivating then reactivating Opera Link, that worked fine but, i think this would be better. Thanks a lot

• Anton DiazAntonDiaz3. June 2011, 19:52

  Originally posted by Vasja72:

  Or do you believe in your authoring solution to this bug?

  
  I'm not first who found this solution too

• VasjaVasja723. June 2011, 20:22

  Originally posted by AntonDiaz:

  I'm not first who found this solution too

  
  Not matter. Really. Just fix bugs.

• Ruarí Ødegaardruario3. June 2011, 20:33

  Originally posted by Vasja72:

  ruario, what about "Thank you!" for Anton Diaz?
  Or do you believe in your authoring solution to this bug?

  Actually, my colleague Mitchman was the first to mention the work around to me. I'd assumed he know what to do by looking into the code that causes the flaw but I didn't actually ask him. He may have read a comment from Anton Diaz, or even someone else.
  
  However, whether Anton was the first or not I presume he has been spreading this way of working around the bug to other users. In which cases he deserves a thanks for that! So sure, thanks Anton and also thanks to anyone else helping people get around this issue.

• VasjaVasja723. June 2011, 21:03

  Originally posted by ruario:

  In which cases he deserves a thanks for that!

  
  In any case, Anton first published decision in the Russian-speaking community, for which he earned the gratitude.
  Waiting for a new build without this bug!

• Victor HugoRaptorHawk3. June 2011, 23:24

  Works fine! Thanks man.

• proxonic4. June 2011, 08:43

  teams optimism is killing me they give us even the bug reports as a great news

• Ruarí Ødegaardruario4. June 2011, 09:34

  I never said it was good news. I just said, if you hit this problem here is how to work around it. What makes you think that I believe it is good news??

• Janlntopera4. June 2011, 10:37

  I do not know if this is from the latest snaps or was all the time the behavior but, if you do have for example 20 tabs open and you choose 'close all' closing starts with the last tab and in order of opening they are closed, which is taking some time.
  
  When I choose for 'close all except active' all other tabs are being closed almost immediately without taking focus or whatever.
  
  As I say, I do not know if this is only from the latest, did not notice it before, but wouldn't it be better/ nicer if the 'close all function' would work the same as 'close all except active'?

• maremma4. June 2011, 14:00

  ok for me:)

• minho4. June 2011, 14:09

  Opera still freezes when sync is active. Fix this annoying bug before final release please.

• Ronit Kumarronitrex4. June 2011, 14:13

  Off-topic comment removed by mod.

• Bhikkhu PesalaPesala4. June 2011, 15:34

  Originally posted by ruario:

  You should still really be doing your own regular backups if you want to try out test versions or any software.
  

  Even if you are using only final versions of any software you really should be doing your own regular backups. Hard Drives fail, computers get stolen, and user error can sometimes destroy data very quickly.
  

  Originally posted by lntopera:

  When I choose for 'close all except active' all other tabs are being closed almost immediately without taking focus or whatever.
  

  Its the same in Opera 11.11 so I suspect it has been like this for some time. I don't recall seeing it mentioned before, but "Close All" is significantly slower than "Close All but Active."
  
  File a bug report, as it is something that could probably be improved quite easily.

• kanstisama4. June 2011, 15:54

  This solution isn't working for me, at least not completely. I'm loosing my speed dial background and I get random number of my speed dial entries back (those showing extensions don't show proper data, just some info about the site they use).
  Looks like we'll have to use backup copy of speeddial for some time.

• James438james4384. June 2011, 18:45

  I have to agree with kanstisama. I saved my opera sync value as 0 and it has since reverted back to the earlier value. This apparently happens during restart.
  
  Not that this is a big deal for me much since I can easily bring my speed dials back using the method I mentioned earlier.

• Damon Andersonartpoetryfiction4. June 2011, 20:16

  Personally I'm seeing this in 11.11 release! (missing speed dial that is)

• Mahesh Jagadeesanmaheshjagadeesan4. June 2011, 23:26

  Thanks for this, this problem was really getting me down!

• jijodelmaiz5. June 2011, 07:16

  Can anybody help me? I got an issue with Opera 11.11, it keeps downloading youtube videos after closing the tab, it's kind of annoying, specially because I don't have connection to spare. Any help would be really appreciated.

• proxonic5. June 2011, 08:02

  Ruari - it was only a joke
  
  The team is doing really great job to make the opera the best browser.

• earth015. June 2011, 08:13

  Originally posted by proxonic:

  I got an issue with Opera 11.11, it keeps downloading youtube videos after closing the tab

  
  It has been fixed in the last build of Opera 11.50.
  Try it instead of the 11.11 version.

• ahoj12345. June 2011, 09:11

  great! many thanks
  This problem is in build 11.11 2109 too. Any way this "trick" works on this build too

• Arsenytarc5. June 2011, 14:32

  If you have menu enable, sometimes menu completely disappear without any reason.

• Satan D. Lucifersupertrol5. June 2011, 18:31

  Can someone confirm this bug?
  
  1)install this extension(need to use this version 11.50 build 1031 windows
  https://addons.opera.com/addons/extensions/details/nettools/1.1/?display=en
  
  2)change the preferences to USA dallas(pref. of the extension)
  3)load any website
  4) now click the extension in the toolbar and click "ping"
  5)???
  
  results: instantly crashes opera (this build also)
  
  if confirmed..should i report it or it is a bug of the extension?
  
  

• Vectronic5. June 2011, 18:45

  Originally posted by supertrol:

  Can someone confirm this bug?

  Confirmed although Opera still shouldn't crash, even if it's the extensions "fault".