Brave sync shyting the bed

[Marcellhvh]

Hi so ive recently reinstalled my windows and everything on it dverything else is fine beside brave’s god damn sync, it syncs the bookmarks and thats it and when i click leave sync chain it atill stays there

Brave Version:v173.105

[Marcellhvh]

Like all i see in sync-internals on browser now is “initial getupdates due to newly_supported_datatype” like ???

[Marcellhvh]

Okay so i downgraded to v1.74.46 and it instantly worked

[Mattches]

@Marcellhvh,
Are you using the Release build of the browser? I ask because that version is not an official release version of the browser. The latest release build is v1.73.105.

[Jay2204]

I am having the exact same issue as Marcellhvh, how can I fix this? Only bookmarks synching and nothing else.

[Marcellhvh]

I just downloaded from brave.com but now i got the latest stable build from github

[Marcellhvh]

Go to the bravesoftware github and get the latest “release” version

[Jay2204]

@Marcellhvh

v1.74.46

What did you do different? I just tried v1.74.46 and it did not work.

[Marcellhvh]

Then try going an even lower version? Idk i think my fix was just pure luck

[lost_everything]

I am having the same issue. Just clean installed windows, Installed brave (Version 1.73.105 Chromium: 131.0.6778.265) in hopes that all my data can be synced back.

But only bookmarks synced… I reinstalled Brave, and again - only bookmarks synced.

Obviously I also backed up all AppData before, but that these days is useless if you want to restore the previous browser state since all passwords, cookies are DPAPI encrypted, etc.

brave://sync-internals/ page:

There is also constantly a spam of this going on:

1/13/2025, 11:16:10 AM GetUpdates Response
Received 0 update(s). Some updates remain.

1/13/2025, 11:16:10 AM Initial GetUpdates
Reason: NEWLY_SUPPORTED_DATATYPE

[lost_everything]

Same. Just tried - 1.74.46 version and only bookmarks are synced on desktop Brave version.

Type Info

Data Type	Total Entries	Live Entries	Message	State
Bookmarks	4431	4431		Running
Preferences	0	0		Running
Passwords	0	0		Running
Autofill Profiles	0	0		Running
Autofill	0	0		Running
Autofill Wallet	0	0		Running
Autofill Wallet Metadata	0	0		Running
Autofill Wallet Offer	0	0		Running
Themes	1	1		Running
Extensions	0	0		Running
Search Engines	0	0		Running
Sessions	0	0		Running
Apps	0	0		Running
App settings	0	0		Running
Extension settings	0	0		Running
History Delete Directives	0	0		Running
Dictionary	0	0		Running
Device Info	7	7		Running
Priority Preferences	3	3		Running
Managed User Settings	0	0		Not Running
Reading List	0	0		Running
User Events	0	0		Not Running
User Consents	0	0		Running
Send Tab To Self	0	0		Running
Security Events	0	0		Running
Web Apps	0	0		Running
Sharing Message	0	0		Running
History	7	7		Running
Contact Info	0	0		Not Running
Saved Tab Group	0	0		Running
WebAuthn Credentials	0	0		Running
Incoming Password Sharing Invitations	0	0		Running
Outgoing Password Sharing Invitations	0	0		Running

It also seems to only upload local browser history (7) instead of downloading from the common synced ones.

[lost_everything]

10h later and nothing has changed for me.

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EDIT:

18 hours later sync finally worked… Everything else is synced, as you see. Not just bookmarks.