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    Opera Presto - what to back up?

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    • blackbird71
      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
        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
          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
            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
              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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              • leocg
                leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                I haven't found any "profile" folder

                Have you checked Menu > Help > About Opera?

                The path is there.

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                • A Former User
                  A Former User last edited by

                  I guess I did.
                  I entered the path directly - "not found".

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                  • leocg
                    leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                    I guess I did.
                    I entered the path directly - "not found".

                    Have you set up Windows to show hidden files/folders?

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                    • A Former User
                      A Former User last edited by

                      It was already hidden.:P
                      What do you think? 😛

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                      • leocg
                        leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                        It was already hidden.:P
                        What do you think?

                        Of course, because it's hiden by default. You need to change your Windows Explorer settings to show the hidden folders.

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                        • A Former User
                          A Former User last edited by

                          "Hidden" within hidden? 😕

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                          • A Former User
                            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 named upgrade.

                            Which one is for what? And do I maybe miss something, Leo? 🙂

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                            • leocg
                              leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                              Does that folder has operaprefs.ini?

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                              • A Former User
                                A Former User last edited by

                                I listed what's in it!
                                Where should I find that ini?

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                                • A Former User
                                  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.
                                  Yeah, done that! :yes: )

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                                  • A Former User
                                    A Former User last edited by

                                    <blockquote> I haven't found any "profile" folder
                                    </blockquote>
                                    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.

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