Sync Flag issue

[silveraith]

I didn’t get the memo about syncing being disabled in an update last month, so I thought I had to manually enable it. Now my Brave desktop browser just crashes immediately whenever I try to start it.

I went to brave://flags and enabled whatever the name of the “sync between devices” flag is, and fiddled with one or two others that seemed simple enough to understand that I would want to change something with them.

I am on the most recent stable release of Brave.

I’d change the flag back if I could, but that requires opening the browser, so I’m in a bit of a Catch-22.

I’d like to resolve this without deleting and reinstalling, as I don’t have any backup of my bookmarks, and I don’t know how to back them up.

Thank you in advance.

[Scruffy4]

I performed the same steps on my browser on 2 separate workstations. One worked. The other has the same issue as you. No idea why it’s hit or miss.

[WizenThorne]

Yep, same here… Really wish there was a way to load in “safe mode”.

[WizenThorne]

After some fiddling around, I figured out you can get back in by deleting the Sync Data and Sync Extension Settings folders in Users/yourusername/AppData/Local/BraveSoftware/UserData/Default

I was then able to recreate my sync keys and it’s working now. No crashes, and I’m syncing among two PCs and one Android device.

[silveraith]

This worked for me. Thank you so much!