Bookmarks importer grayed out but I don't want to import my entire Opera 12 profile

A Former User

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.

A Former User

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.

A Former User

Uninstall Opera 19 from Control Panel.

Note that this does not remove your profile.

A Former User

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.

spyros78

spyros78

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:

blackbird71

blackbird71

FWIW, all of @rilef's postings suddenly disappeared from this forum several weeks ago (other than excerpts other posters had quoted)...

A Former User

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?

blackbird71

blackbird71

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?).