Restoring bookmarks but losing them again when resyncing

m2oswald

m2oswald

I was cleaning up a second computer to give to a friend, deleting all of my personal information from it. As part of that I started to delete the bookmarks from the Opera browser, bookmark bar but about halfway through I realized that I was still sync'ing. So I logged off of Opera and finished the purge.

I'm on my main computer now and sure enough my bookmarks are gone. If I close Opera and go to the folder containing the bookmarks file (com.operasoftware.Opera on my mac) I can replace the bookmarks file with bookmarks.bak. When I restart Opera the bookmarks are there for a brief second, but then disappear. I assume I'm losing them again because of the sync. Is there any way to stop this? Or to specify that the computer I'm on now is the primary source and everything should sync to this one? Where is the synchronization info kept?

Thanks so much for everyone's help.

m2oswald

m2oswald @m2oswald

I'm writing this in case someone else has the same problem. What I ended up doing was pretty simple, not sure why it didn't occur to me earlier.
I signed out of Opera to stop the sync, then closed it and switched the bookmarks file with the old one. Restarted Opera, verified that all of the bookmarks were recovered, and then exported them to an html file. I signed back into Opera and the bookmarks immediately disappeared after it syncronised. But now I could import the html file with the bookmarks that I needed. Once imported, I went to Opera:boomarks and just had to move around the ones that I wanted to keep and delete the duplicates.