Today I tried setting up Brave on Linux Mint. Basically, it works in the sense that it adds my device to the sync chain, but at the moment of adding, it also automatically closes the sync overview and returns to the settings. According to the overview, the Linux device is now part of the sync chain, but it doesn’t actually sync anything. It only imported the bookmarks once and nothing else. All devices are set to sync everything, and this works fine on the two Windows devices and the smartphone — only the Linux device doesn’t retrieve any new data. Even leaving the sync chain doesn’t work; it remains in the chain even if I remove it from another device. The only way to remove it is by deleting the folders via the console.
I have already installed Brave both via the package manager and from the Brave website. It behaves exactly the same in both cases. Brave is up to date, as is the operating system.
Brave installs fine, I can join it to an existing sync chain (and it syncs booksmarks), but after I enable anything else from the sync options, it does… nothing. “Leave Sync Chain” doesn’t do anything, only way to actually leave is to a) delete ~/.config/BraveSoftware and remove it from the sync chain on another computer.
Install is up-to-date on Linux and Windows (which is the “main” sync node here.)
Hi, I managed to solve the problem myself, maybe this will help you too.
I completely removed the device from the chain it didn’t want to sync with, and then created a new chain on that device.
Somehow, it suddenly received the data from the previous chain, I have no idea how or why.
After that, I left the newly created chain (should work with the “Leave chain” button) and added the device back to the original chain.
Suddenly, it synced everything.
