Originally posted by rilef:
The Opera Next user profile folder is named whatever and located wherever your Opera Next installation says its named and located. And the profile folder may not actually be named "profile" or "data" (unless its Opera 18, USB(portable) installation, on Windows XP 32-bit, which your installation is not). And there is no supposed-to-be file named "Profile" AFAIK. Similarly, the Opera 12 user profile folder is named whatever and located wherever your Opera 12 installation says its named and located.
I still run Opera 12 and there is indeed a Profile folder there -- and always has been. Copying that file to the next update kept all my bookmarks, skins, themes, etc., consistent throughout multiple updates.
Opera does say what I posted : Profile: C:\Users\...\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Next but there is no Profile folder in there.
Obviously, Opera has changed how things work.