Cannot delete anything in Opera link

I have been using Opera for a long time and have it installed on several systems using Link for syncing bookmarks. The number of bookmarks have grown and the other day I decided to start deleting all the ones I didn't want. I spent about an hour doing so using the Opera install on my linux install. Later I booted into my windows install to do something and used Opera on that but didn't pay any attention to the bookmarks. When I next used Opera back on linux I noticed that all of the bookmarks I had deleted were back. I had created a new folder and moved some bookmarks into it and that was still there.

I had assumed that Link used a time stamp system to decide which way to sync. However, the only explanation I can think of for its behaviour is that it compares the two files and copies anything that is missing on one to the other and has no way of checking when the files were updated. This means that there is no way to delete anything. If something is deleted from one install and synced with the server then when the other install is used the server will copy the deleted bookmark back from the second install to the server and then back to the first.

Is there any way of solving this or is the best way of keeping bookmarks and other files in sync between installs to use something like dropbox instead. I have to use dropbox now anyway for the Contacts file as that still hasn't been included in Link.

thanks

Originally posted by bailout:

I have been using Opera for a long time and have it installed on several systems using Link for syncing bookmarks. The number of bookmarks have grown and the other day I decided to start deleting all the ones I didn't want. I spent about an hour doing so using the Opera install on my linux install. Later I booted into my windows install to do something and used Opera on that but didn't pay any attention to the bookmarks. When I next used Opera back on linux I noticed that all of the bookmarks I had deleted were back. I had created a new folder and moved some bookmarks into it and that was still there.

I had assumed that Link used a time stamp system to decide which way to sync. However, the only explanation I can think of for its behaviour is that it compares the two files and copies anything that is missing on one to the other and has no way of checking when the files were updated. This means that there is no way to delete anything. If something is deleted from one install and synced with the server then when the other install is used the server will copy the deleted bookmark back from the second install to the server and then back to the first.

Is there any way of solving this or is the best way of keeping bookmarks and other files in sync between installs to use something like dropbox instead. I have to use dropbox now anyway for the Contacts file as that still hasn't been included in Link.

thanks

Yeah, something sounds wrong there on one of your systems. I think Opera has to use timestamps (or similar) I delete bookmarks or add bookmarks or modify them on one system and they sync (are removed or updated) when I start up another system. I've done this for a long, long time, and I assume many many others do too.

If it always kept ALL bookmarks all the time, that would be pretty dumb. If it did what you suggested nobody could ever delete bookmarks, obviously people delete bookmarks all the time.

Is it possible that the date on one of the systems was set wrong? Or could be something wrong with the install and possibly need to do a reinstall of Opera or something, but I can assure you that is not the expected behavior. You should be able to delete bookmarks on one system and they will then be removed on ALL systems that are using Opera Link.

Thanks for the reply. I have had to reinstall on one system anyway so I will uninstall Opera on the others and delete all the Opera files and settings and reinstall and see if it works OK from then. I have upgraded with new versions quite a few times so perhaps something got messed up.