Size Of Opera Stable Profile Folder Issue

[bbildman]

bbildman last edited by bbildman

Hi, I have two laptops (windows 7) using the newest Opera R3. Once a week I back up my computer and also use WinRar to archive the Opera Stable profile folder. On my wife's laptop, when I backed up and WinRared her profile folder, the resulting archive was over 503 mb, where as a couple months ago it was but 83 mb. The IndexedDB folder is over 1 gb, and I don't know why this is. On my laptop, my IndexedDB is but 184 mb, and my wife browses less than I do.

What is the IndexedDB folder and is there any way to reduce it's size. What happens if I delete the contents??

Thanks for any help

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @bbildman last edited by

See https://help.opera.com/en/latest/crashes-and-issues/#backup

I guess you can delete the folder content without any major issue.

[bbildman]

bbildman @leocg last edited by

@leocg Hi Leo, is there any way to have those and cache files deleted on closing Opera, like in previous versions.

Thanks for the reply

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @bbildman last edited by

There isn't.

By the way, I don't think there are reasons to always delete those folders on exit.

[bbildman]

bbildman @leocg last edited by

@leocg Besides the fact I did delete the IndexedDB folder without an undue tragedy, could you explain to me exactly what those files in that folder actually do...thanks

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @bbildman last edited by

Here are some info about Indexeddb. Basically it stores data from sites.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indexed_Database_API
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/IndexedDB_API