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    • orshee
      orshee last edited by

      Today I open settings and I see about half my search shortcuts have been inactivated.

      Is there a policy now to inactivate these things?

      Is there a way to avoid these inactivations in future? Even if I don't use them frequently I'd like them to be there when needed without having to search them out and re-activate them.

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      • leocg
        leocg Moderator Volunteer @orshee last edited by

        @orshee You mean the ones in opera://settings/searchEngines? And what do you mean by inactivated? They were removed?

        Maybe your profile directory got corrupted?

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        • orshee
          orshee @leocg last edited by

          @leocg Yes, under opera://settings/searchEngines there is now a heading "Inactive shortcuts" and several of the sites I had listed under Site search (the heading above Inactive shortcuts) were now under the inactive shortcuts heading. I didn't put them there so I assume some algorithm moved them to inactive. Fortunately whatever moved them there didn't delete them so I was able to move them back to Site search. Is there a way to keep this from happening again?

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          • leocg
            leocg Moderator Volunteer @orshee last edited by

            @orshee Never saw or heard of it before and here I don't see that section.

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            • orshee
              orshee @leocg last edited by

              @leocg Here it is, O-87.0.4390.36
              (hope this image works)

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              • leocg
                leocg Moderator Volunteer @orshee last edited by

                @orshee OK, I see it now here but it has no entries.

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                • orshee
                  orshee @leocg last edited by

                  @leocg Yes, that's because I moved all the ones that had shown up there back to where they were before ie in "Site search" where they had been for months before something moved them to "Inactive shortcuts". So what decides they should be inactive and how do I prevent that from happening again?

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                  • leocg
                    leocg Moderator Volunteer @orshee last edited by

                    @orshee I was talking about me, my Opera installation.

                    Like I said, until your post I have never heard of it, so I have no idea what makes a search engine inactive other than the user manually doing it.

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