Lost speed dials and own settings in Opera developer

[lucksme]

lucksme last edited by

Opera developer crashed, and crashed my PC. After restart, reinstalled Opera developer, only to find that all my previous settings and speed dials were lost.
I found advice to go to the folder, and replace some file with one from a back-up. But I could not find the file with the settings.
...AppData\Local\Programs\Opera developer\90.0.44.....
What am I supposed to copy or restore from the backup?

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @lucksme last edited by

@lucksme The file with settings would be Preferences.

[lucksme]

lucksme last edited by lucksme

Hi,
Therein lies the problem, no such file exists, not even in the back-ups

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @lucksme last edited by

@lucksme The file is in the profile directory and not in the installation one.

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lucksme @leocg last edited by

@leocg What profile directory?

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @lucksme last edited by

@lucksme It's the directory where user data is stored.

On Windows, it's usually in users\username\appdata\roaming\opera software. Usually if you just open %appdata%, you should see the Opera Software directory.

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lucksme last edited by

Hi
Thank you for your advice. I found the file, replaced with an older one, but it did not revert to using the older settings, but instead, continued to use the new unedited settings.

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @lucksme last edited by

@lucksme Then I guess it will be easier to just go to settings page and enable or disable the ones you want.

Use Sync may help in the future.

[lucksme]

lucksme last edited by lucksme

Hi,
Clearly if it was just a matter of redoing the settings as I like the browser, I would not have gone to all this trouble. The problem is that I had saved many web sites in the bookmarks and maybe 20 sites in speed dial. The speed dials are lost, and I cannot remember what they all were.
So, the fact is I have lost many site addresses.

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @lucksme last edited by

@lucksme I was talking about the settings part.

You can export your bookmarks from times to times to have a backup of them, as well you can enable bookmarks syncing. Will not solve the current issue but may turn things easier in the future.