How to restore Opera Gx from backup?

GGhireal

GGhireal

About a month ago I made a backup of opera since I was going to reinstall windows. This was a manual backup, I went to all 3 folder locations and copied to another location. I was going to get a new pc, so decided to hold on bringing in the backups. My version is 114, while new one is 116. If I try to delete the current versions and move over all 3 folders will it work or is there something else I need to do?

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @GGhireal

@GGhireal As said, you paste the content of the old profile directory into the new profile directory.
For passwords, you need to use Sync or export the passwords.

GGhireal

GGhireal @leocg

@leocg Just making sure, it should be alright if I paste over all 3 folders? Sync has alll the passwords saved.

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @GGhireal

@GGhireal What 3 folders? You just need to backup one folder, the profile directory.

GGhireal

GGhireal @leocg

@leocg All three locations of the opera folders. I'll go ahead and backup the profile folder.

GGhireal

GGhireal @leocg

@leocg I went ahead and did the profile directory, however all of my extentions were gone except for two. There were also a few things missing here and there. I went ahead and backed up all 3 folders which brought everything back. Only thing I had to do after that was to update Opera Gx. Thank you.
These are the locations I was talking about.

Paths
Install: C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Programs

Profile: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera GX Stable

Cache: C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Opera Software\Opera GX Stable

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @GGhireal

@GGhireal You need to reinstall the extensions.

Move the Extensions folder to a different place. Then go to opera://extensions, click on Load Unpacked, find the Extension folder that you have moved, open the folder of the extension you want to install, select the folder with the version number.