How do I restore old opera bookmarks?
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Hantuuu last edited by
Hi. Due to some problem, I have to uninstall my opera browser. Unfortunately, I did forgot to backup my bookmarks
I tried to sync, the bookmarks still gone.
When uninstall opera, I didn't delete anything manually. Is there any posibility that opera still save my old bookmarks somewhere in my computer? How do I restore it?
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
You can look in "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable" for a "Bookmarks" file and a "Bookmarks.bak" file.
You can open them in a text editor to see if it looks like your bookmarks are there. If so, copy those files to your desktop as a backup. Then, just temporarily install Opera and they should show up in Opera at the URL
opera://bookmarks. You can then use the drop-down at the bottom left of that page to export your bookmarks to an HTML file that can be imported into the browser of your choice. -
Hantuuu last edited by Hantuuu
@burnout426 !
Thank you. I then browse to the folder you provide, but I can't find neither bookmark folder, nor bookmark files.image_2023-10-24_113911604.png
*there's 2 screenshoots. I wonder why the other one did not appear, but you can click the screenshoot name above.
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Hantuuu last edited by
@burnout426 said in How do I restore old opera bookmarks?:
You can look in "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable" for a "Bookmarks" file and a "Bookmarks.bak" file.
You can open them in a text editor to see if it looks like your bookmarks are there. If so, copy those files to your desktop as a backup. Then, just temporarily install Opera and they should show up in Opera at the URL
opera://bookmarks. You can then use the drop-down at the bottom left of that page to export your bookmarks to an HTML file that can be imported into the browser of your choice.Thank you, I found them in "default.old"
now, how do I export them to html? I'm not sure.
from what you wrote, I only get that I will only have to reinstall opera, but I can't remember if it really ask me anything about file in desktop
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@hantuuu Try this way:
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Make a test standalone installation of Opera to a folder named "Opera Test" on your desktop.
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Close that Opera.
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In the profile/data/default folder in the "Opera Test" folder, replace its "Bookmarks" and "BookmarksExtras" files with copies of the copies you found in Default.old.
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In the "Opera Test" folder, double-left-click on launcher.exe to start that Opera.
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Goto the URL
opera://bookmarksand confirm that your bookmarks are in there somewhere. -
Click the drop-down at the bottom left of the bookmarks page and choose to export your bookmarks to bookmarks.html.
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Hantuuu last edited by
@burnout426 said in How do I restore old opera bookmarks?:
@hantuuu Try this way:
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Make a test standalone installation of Opera to a folder named "Opera Test" on your desktop.
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Close that Opera.
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In the profile/data/default folder in the "Opera Test" folder, replace its "Bookmarks" and "BookmarksExtras" files with copies of the copies you found in Default.old.
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In the "Opera Test" folder, double-left-click on launcher.exe to start that Opera.
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Goto the URL
opera://bookmarksand confirm that your bookmarks are in there somewhere. -
Click the drop-down at the bottom left of the bookmarks page and choose to export your bookmarks to bookmarks.html.
thanks. but I can't open your link, it's blocked here. and when I'm using vpn, it just loading non stop
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@hantuuu In short, that Reddit link just says to download the USB/Portable version of Opera and install it to a folder on your desktop.
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Hantuuu last edited by
@burnout426 said in How do I restore old opera bookmarks?:
@hantuuu In short, that Reddit link just says to download the USB/Portable version of Opera and install it to a folder on your desktop.
Thank you but it did not create bookmarks folder after installation
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@hantuuu Go in the "profile" folder, then the "data" folder, then the "Default" folder. Then you should see the "Bookmarks" and "BookmarksExtras" files.
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Hantuuu last edited by
@burnout426 said in How do I restore old opera bookmarks?:
@hantuuu Go in the "profile" folder, then the "data" folder, then the "Default" folder. Then you should see the "Bookmarks" and "BookmarksExtras" files.
thankyou. I got them, now what to do? copy those bookmark to my original opera installation folder? Because if I'm using the standalone, I can't import the bookmark to my other browser
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@hantuuu said in How do I restore old opera bookmarks?:
now what to do? copy those bookmark to my original opera installation folder?
Yes. That's one way. The other way would be to goto the URL
opera://bookmarksin the standalone installation, click the drop-down at the bottom left and export the bookmarks to an HTML file. Then in your normal Opera, goto the URLopera://settings/importData, choose "Bookmarks HTML file" in the drop-down and import the HTML file. Then, goto the URLopera://bookmarksand move them where you want.That 2nd method would be better if you have existing bookmarks in your regular Opera that you want to keep.
