<![CDATA[Bookmarks importer grayed out but I don't want to import my entire Opera 12 profile]]>I've read through various threads regarding the Bookmarks importer, but I am still not clear what I need to do in my situation: I'm running Opera Next 19 and the Bookmarks bar is enabled; however, the "Bookmark importer" tool is grayed out. Therefore, I am unable to import my Opera 12 bookmarks.

I read how one can import an entire Opera 12 profile into Opera 15+, but I've made a number of "customizations" to my Opera Next profile since first installing Opera 15, and I do not wish to over-write the entire profile. I simply want to import my Opera 12 bookmarks into Opera Next 19. What can I do?

For clarity of potential instructions, my 64-bit Opera 12 has the bookmarks stored here:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Opera\Opera x64

My 64-bit Opera 19 profile is here:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Next

BTW, if possible, I'd prefer not to have to go through Chrome in order to get my bookmarks imported.

Thanks very much in advance.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/247/bookmarks-importer-grayed-out-but-i-don-t-want-to-import-my-entire-opera-12-profileRSS for NodeSun, 08 Mar 2026 18:07:47 GMTFri, 06 Dec 2013 06:02:09 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Bookmarks importer grayed out but I don't want to import my entire Opera 12 profile on Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:43:44 GMT]]>At least some of the forum threads are archived in the Wayback Machine ( http://www.archive.org/web/web.php }, but I've not been able to get a successful search result there for rilef's postings per se. For whatever reason his posts were deleted from these forums, they appear to be gone for good from here... I doubt Opera keeps "archive" copies of the forums, though they may have some routine periodic server backups that date back a few weeks.

I first stumbled on the deletion issue when I attempted to direct another user to a URL I'd saved referring to one of rilef's threads that answered a question this other user was asking, only to find the URL dead. That set me off on something of a quest, and I found a couple others of his URL's that were also dead. In one thread, I had been dialoguing with him about a problem solution, and a section of one of his comments that I quoted in response to him still appears if I pull up that thread, but his original post that I quoted from (plus all his other posts there) are gone from the thread. It's like a complete purge has occurred...

edit to update: In checking his profile page ( http://my.opera.com/rilef/ ), he's still listed as a member of the Community. But it appears that all his posts prior to 17 December are gone - only 11 are listed, all since then and none since 26 December. I'm guessing the purging may be something he may have done himself for some reason (perhaps major dis-satisfaction with Opera?).

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/28926https://forums.opera.com/post/28926Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:43:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bookmarks importer grayed out but I don't want to import my entire Opera 12 profile on Tue, 18 Feb 2014 00:27:21 GMT]]>spyros78, I wish I could recall all of the details rilef had given me (I will need to perform the same operations on a new computer in the near future). He basically instructed me to do a fresh install onto a flash drive, and import my profile from my Opera 12 installation to my flash drive installation. Once that was done, rilef had stated which directories/files I needed to transfer to my "real" Opera 19 installation. Unfortunately, I don't recall the details 😞 Sorry about that.

Now to comment on what blackbird71 (the best plane ever, btw) commented: Does anyone know if there are archives of this forum somewhere that may have the complete text?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/28893https://forums.opera.com/post/28893Tue, 18 Feb 2014 00:27:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bookmarks importer grayed out but I don't want to import my entire Opera 12 profile on Mon, 17 Feb 2014 00:28:42 GMT]]>FWIW, all of @rilef's postings suddenly disappeared from this forum several weeks ago (other than excerpts other posters had quoted)...

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/28857https://forums.opera.com/post/28857Mon, 17 Feb 2014 00:28:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bookmarks importer grayed out but I don't want to import my entire Opera 12 profile on Sun, 16 Feb 2014 19:18:28 GMT]]>mj1 can u please post what rilef had suggested to u? for some reason i can only 3 see replies in this topic, the two of you and one of Pesala.

I have an ADR file and an htm saved and i can't import any of them into version 19. :left: :right:

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/28850https://forums.opera.com/post/28850Sun, 16 Feb 2014 19:18:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bookmarks importer grayed out but I don't want to import my entire Opera 12 profile on Sat, 07 Dec 2013 20:33:06 GMT]]>Pelsala, rilef: Thanks for the replies!

I tried rilef's suggestion first, and that did the trick 🙂 I now have my Opera 12 bookmarks in Opera Next 19 and I'm a happy camper.

Thanks again for the assistance. I very much appreciate your efforts.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/25835https://forums.opera.com/post/25835Sat, 07 Dec 2013 20:33:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bookmarks importer grayed out but I don't want to import my entire Opera 12 profile on Sat, 07 Dec 2013 07:44:49 GMT]]>Uninstall Opera 19 from Control Panel.

Note that this does not remove your profile.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/25807https://forums.opera.com/post/25807Sat, 07 Dec 2013 07:44:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bookmarks importer grayed out but I don't want to import my entire Opera 12 profile on Sat, 07 Dec 2013 07:32:01 GMT]]>Hi rilef,

Thanks very much for the detailed reply! One issue I ran into: Since I already have Opera Next 19 installed, when I re-ran the Opera Next 19 Installer to create a USB version, the Opera Installer has the "Install for" selection grayed out. Thus, I can't create the USB version 😞

I tried searching the forums for a solution, but I was not successful.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/25806https://forums.opera.com/post/25806Sat, 07 Dec 2013 07:32:01 GMT