now what to do? copy those bookmark to my original opera installation folder?

Yes. That's one way. The other way would be to goto the URL opera://bookmarks in the standalone installation, click the drop-down at the bottom left and export the bookmarks to an HTML file. Then in your normal Opera, goto the URL opera://settings/importData, choose "Bookmarks HTML file" in the drop-down and import the HTML file. Then, goto the URL opera://bookmarks and move them where you want.

That 2nd method would be better if you have existing bookmarks in your regular Opera that you want to keep.

@hantuuu Go in the "profile" folder, then the "data" folder, then the "Default" folder. Then you should see the "Bookmarks" and "BookmarksExtras" files.

thankyou. I got them, now what to do? copy those bookmark to my original opera installation folder? Because if I'm using the standalone, I can't import the bookmark to my other browser

@hantuuu In short, that Reddit link just says to download the USB/Portable version of Opera and install it to a folder on your desktop.

Thank you but it did not create bookmarks folder after installation


@hantuuu Try this way:

• Make a test standalone installation of Opera to a folder named "Opera Test" on your desktop.

• Close that Opera.

• In the profile/data/default folder in the "Opera Test" folder, replace its "Bookmarks" and "BookmarksExtras" files with copies of the copies you found in Default.old.

• In the "Opera Test" folder, double-left-click on launcher.exe to start that Opera.

• Goto the URLopera://bookmarks and confirm that your bookmarks are in there somewhere.

• Click the drop-down at the bottom left of the bookmarks page and choose to export your bookmarks to bookmarks.html.

thanks. but I can't open your link, it's blocked here. and when I'm using vpn, it just loading non stop

• Make a test standalone installation of Opera to a folder named "Opera Test" on your desktop.

• Close that Opera.

• In the profile/data/default folder in the "Opera Test" folder, replace its "Bookmarks" and "BookmarksExtras" files with copies of the copies you found in Default.old.

• In the "Opera Test" folder, double-left-click on launcher.exe to start that Opera.

• Goto the URLopera://bookmarks and confirm that your bookmarks are in there somewhere.

• Click the drop-down at the bottom left of the bookmarks page and choose to export your bookmarks to bookmarks.html.

You can look in "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable" for a "Bookmarks" file and a "Bookmarks.bak" file.

You can open them in a text editor to see if it looks like your bookmarks are there. If so, copy those files to your desktop as a backup. Then, just temporarily install Opera and they should show up in Opera at the URL opera://bookmarks. You can then use the drop-down at the bottom left of that page to export your bookmarks to an HTML file that can be imported into the browser of your choice.

Thank you, I found them in "default.old"

now, how do I export them to html? I'm not sure.

from what you wrote, I only get that I will only have to reinstall opera, but I can't remember if it really ask me anything about file in desktop

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*there's 2 screenshoots. I wonder why the other one did not appear, but you can click the screenshoot name above.

You can open them in a text editor to see if it looks like your bookmarks are there. If so, copy those files to your desktop as a backup. Then, just temporarily install Opera and they should show up in Opera at the URL opera://bookmarks. You can then use the drop-down at the bottom left of that page to export your bookmarks to an HTML file that can be imported into the browser of your choice.