Importing Opera 12 settings into Opera 18

nigelt74

nigelt74

Ok, i can find guides on how to Import if i am installing opera 18 in place of Opera 12, but as I want both Operas on my system while I evaluate Opera 18, how do i pull the settings across?

And yes i understand Opera 18 is different etc and i lose Mail, RSS and Dragonfly (3 of my main reasons for sticking with 12), but well for general use it seems fine and add-ons for RSS sounds OK

Cheers

nigelt74

nigelt74

I can't work out how to get the profile importer to start, and the import bookmarks thingie is greyed out

I have read that if opera 12s paths aren't standard opera 18 can't find it, but from what i can tell below the paths seem right-ish

Opera 12 paths
Paths
Preferences
C:\Users\noodlesoup\AppData\Roaming\Opera\Opera64\operaprefs.ini
Saved session
C:\Users\noodlesoup\AppData\Roaming\Opera\Opera64\sessions\autopera.win
Bookmarks
C:\Users\noodlesoup\AppData\Roaming\Opera\Opera64\bookmarks.adr
Opera directory
C:\Users\noodlesoup\AppData\Roaming\Opera\Opera64
Cache
C:\Users\noodlesoup\AppData\Local\Opera\Opera64\cache
Help documents
C:\Users\noodlesoup\AppData\Local\Opera\Opera64\opcache
Mail directory
C:\Users\noodlesoup\AppData\Local\Opera\Opera64\mail
Plug-in path
E:\Opera64\program\plugins
User CSS directory
C:\Users\noodlesoup\AppData\Roaming\Opera\Opera64\styles\user

Opera 18 Paths

Install: C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera Next
Profile: C:\Users\noodlesoup\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Next
Cache: C:\Users\noodlesoup\AppData\Local\Opera Software\Opera Next

Any help appreciated

nigelt74

nigelt74

Ok, using the info in this post
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1765432&t=1385768814&page=1#comment14809222

helped a lot, the only issue was that i don't have a /profile folder so i had to locate my roaming folder

So for me the below command worked

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera Next\launcher.exe" --presto-small-prefs-dir="C:\Users\noodlesoup\AppData\Roaming\Opera\Opera64"