Opera Presto - what to back up?
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blackbird71 last edited byYou can copy the backup files anywhere (outside of Opera's own folders) to retain the ability to restore them to Opera. Once upon a time, in a galaxy far far away, I used to simply create a renamed copy of things like the bookmarks file (eg: I used bookmarks.bak, instead of bookmarks.adr) and left them right in the Opera folder itself. That at least gave me a restoration point if something went berserk within Opera itself and wiped out its own-named files with corrupted or default versions. In fact, I still have some of those in my older Opera installations. However, because of the effort involved in keeping them reasonably current and the risks of damage from other things (drive crashes, malware attacks, etc), I now auto-backup in several differently-timed ways to media independent of my main drive.
And yes, it really does back up Opera functionally for a user. Opera can be re-installed, and when it is, it will reuse any existing user-personal file it finds if it's reinstalled into the same folder name as originally used. Which is why a user needing a full Opera re-install in cases of corruption is advised to move his user-personal files elsewhere until the re-installed Opera is working, then copy them over one or a few at a time so as to isolate any that re-import their own corruption back into the new installation.
A point I raised earlier is that which of Presto Opera's functions a user employs can indeed affect what files he should backup. Some functions like Notes will only create a file when a user actually creates his first note, otherwise may not appear at all. So your mileage will vary, and it's always safest to copy the whole profile folder and its subfolders to the backup... that way, it's all there, whether you copy it all back to a re-install, or only copy selected parts as needed. I included the brower.js file since it contains Opera's tweaks to bring compliance with various websites, and if Presto Opera 'officially' goes belly-up, there's no assurance the latest update of that file will remain alive and retrievable on Opera's servers as it currently is. The search.ini file contains user-customizations of the Opera installation's search engine functionality. A key thing to remember is that none of these files are end-of-the-world in importance (apart from perhaps eMail, bookmarks, or a few others)... nearly all their functionality can be manually recovered eventually, though with the expenditure of a lot of effort.
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A Former User last edited by
However, because of the effort involved in keeping them reasonably current and the risks of damage from other things, I now auto-backup in several differently-timed ways to media independent of my main drive.
That's logical!
A key thing to remember is that none of these files are end-of-the-world in importance (apart from perhaps eMail, bookmarks, or a few others)... nearly all their functionality can be manually recovered eventually, though with the expenditure of a lot of effort.
That major lot some time ago is so far in time now that I'd have to recall where the hell this damn' stuff is.:)
So, should I "clear cache" first or does it not really matter?
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blackbird71 last edited by
I'd clear it, "just because". There isn't likely to be anything of value in it in terms of trying to recover Opera Presto using a backup set of files, and it certainly helps to reduce the backup storage space needed. The cache simply exists to speed up Opera's retrieval of website content, history, etc that it has already accessed before.
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A Former User last edited by
Is it in a certain file or two which one can just leave "untreated" should some recovery needed?
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blackbird71 last edited by
I'm moving out of my area of more-certain knowledge, but most (if not all) of the cache resides in the \cache subfolder under the profile folder. I'll leave it for others to say if there's any other fragments elsewhere. 'Sessions' is a possible similar situation, with files that can live in several places to auto-restore an interrupted Opera session to the page(s) it last was, and which some users rely upon to restart Opera to where it last was upon shut-down. If you clear the cache before backing up and if your Opera is set to start in some other way besides "resuming", then none of it should matter.
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A Former User last edited by
"Too late!":D
I haven't found any "profile" folder [here]( "C:\Documents and Settings\Svyaznoy\Local Settings\Application Data\Opera\Opera") (tried three different ways etc.), so I've backed up the entire \Opera\Opera folder.
Right?The question now is how do I find the aforementioned files there in case something's happened!
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blackbird71 last edited by
"Too late!":D
I haven't found any "profile" folder here (tried three different ways etc.), so I've backed up the entire \Opera\Opera folder.
Right?
The question now is how do I find the aforementioned files there in case something's happened!I apologize! In my path directions for the 'normal' Opera installation, the path should not have ended at a "profile" subfolder, but instead ended at the second "opera" folder:
c:\Documents and Settings(*account username)\Application data\Opera\Opera
I was looking on my little-used XP system at the one Opera version installation there that no longer is operative out of the 5 on the system, and the one which I had long ago moved everything into (and added) the final "profile" subfolder, just in case I ever wanted to restore it. Your actual 'profile' folder for backing up would be the 'second' "opera" subfolder noted in the path above, though if you changed the folder name at the time of installation, it might be some other term.
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A Former User last edited by
Well, these are the folders (subfolders) (and a file) that I can see in that second "Opera" folder:
application_cache,cache,custom,icons,mail,opcache,temporary_downloads,thumbnails,vps,widgets,
and the only not subfoldered file is a txt file namedupgrade.
Which one is for what? And do I maybe miss something, Leo?
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A Former User last edited by
Leo. YOU WERE RIGHT!!!
I've found a THIRD Opera folder - it is also "double"!
Same shit but without\Local Settings\!
Yeah, and there are all that stuff you guys mentioned!! :yes:
(I'm now gonna delete that strange stuff and back up this one instead.
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A Former User last edited by
<blockquote> I haven't found any "profile" folder
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Have you checked Menu > Help > About Opera?
The path is there.That time I thought I'd already found, and I wasn't with Opera.
