Recover bookmarks after factory reset

[silencedmind]

silencedmind last edited by

Hello,

Today i did a factory reset because i had some pretty severe problems i couldnt get fixed.

Before resetting, i specifically chose the option "keep files". Just all my apps and programs would be deleted.

I'm from origin a chrome user who converted to opera around a year back. I am highly used to being all my settings and stuff being saved and easy able to synchronized. With that mindset, i reset today. Just an hour ago, i installed opera again, and i thought everything would be neatly synchronized, and perfect.

But my bookmarks have not showed up. I have a couple of hundred, some very old ones to and they are very dear to me.

Who has some suggestions to getting them back?

What i have tried;
-"Import bookmarks and settings" from the settings menu. Nothing shows up when i go to the appdata folder, where a supposedly html file would be.
-trying to find the bookmark file itself. I can see 2, but no idea what they mean. 1 is called "Bookmarks" and the other "BookmarksExtras". They also dont show up when i try to open from the setting recovery option.

I want to emphasize that other files are perfectly retained. my whole mod folder, movies, downloads etc are all intact. I don't quite understand how my bookmarks got lost.

Any help much appreciated!

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @silencedmind last edited by

@silencedmind Did you make ba backup? Was sync enabled?

[silencedmind]

silencedmind @leocg last edited by

@leocg No and no. As stated, I thought this was an automatic feature of opera.

I did choose the 'retain files' option however before resetting, does that count for something?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @silencedmind last edited by

@silencedmind Then I'm afraid your data is gone.

[naheed]

naheed @silencedmind last edited by

@silencedmind
If sync is not enabled then it seems not possible to get
Your bookmarks back after the factory reset.
Always enable synchronization on Opera or any other browser.

[raredx]

raredx @naheed last edited by

@naheed Hi, I'm in the process of exiting the work world and want to make sure I still have all my bookmarks that are on my desktop. Most of them are of personal nature and a few are work related. I don't care about the work related ones and cal always delete them going forward. So if I have read the thread correctly by creating an opera account and enabling SYNC on everything it basically does a backup/export to my Opera account in the cloud?? If that is the case then we are all good to go land I can delete all of my personal stuff on the desktop PC. Hopefully, you or someone will see my post and reply fairly soon.

Thanks
Terry

[raredx]

raredx @naheed last edited by

@naheed please disregard my previous question as I when ahead and tested my theory and it worked 100% Yeah. Now I can go enjoy my employment

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Just make sure to turn off Sync on the office machine before deleting you bookmarks there ...