Why can opera not import its own bookmarks?!

[hucker]

hucker last edited by

I had a disk corruption. I have a fresh install of windows. Fresh install of Opera. Why is it so hard to get my bookmarks back? I found the file on the old disk d:\users\peter\appdata\roaming\opera software\opera stable\bookmarks but when I copy it to the same location on c:, opera still sees no bookmarks.

And seriously? When I try to import, it can only import from other browsers and not it's own file?!

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @hucker last edited by

@hucker There is nothing in opera://bookmarks?

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @hucker last edited by

@hucker Under normal circumstances, no browser would be importing from itself. With Opera closed, you ought to be able to just overwrite the new file with the old one.

[Olifant]

Olifant @hucker last edited by

@hucker
i think you have to copy the bookmarks file to
"Default" folder.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

Copying the "Bookmarks" file over used to work exactly like you'd expect. However, at some point it was changed to where the bookmarks in the file are considered to be from a different Opera/device where you need to goto the URL opera://bookmarks to find them and move them to where you want.

Another option is to take that Bookmarks file and use https://rongjiecomputer.github.io/chrome/bookmark-recovery/#windows to convert it to an HTML file and then import it at the URL opera://settings/importData by choosing "Bookmarks HTML file" in the drop-down. You should then find the bookmarks in an imported folder on the bookmarks bar. You can then goto the URL opera://bookmarks and move them to where you want.

[BillTages]

BillTages @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 said in Why can opera not import its own bookmarks?!:

Copying the "Bookmarks" file over used to work exactly like you'd expect. However, at some point it was changed to where the bookmarks in the file are considered to be from a different Opera/device where you need to goto the URL opera://bookmarks to find them and move them to where you want.

Another option is to take that Bookmarks file and use https://rongjiecomputer.github.io/chrome/bookmark-recovery/#windows to convert it to an HTML file and then import it at the URL opera://settings/importData by choosing "Bookmarks HTML file" in the drop-down. You should then find the bookmarks in an imported folder on the bookmarks bar. You can then goto the URL opera://bookmarks and move them to where you want.

Thanks for the tip, using the HTML conversion definitely makes the import smoother. Did you notice if this behavior change happened after a specific Opera update?

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @BillTages last edited by

@BillTages Don't remember when it happened, sorry.

[hucker]

hucker last edited by hucker

Why must Opera keep redesigning and complicating everything? If it ain't broke don't fix it.

And the import function should include itself!!! Basic stuff you've got wrong here.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @hucker last edited by

@hucker There are any browser that import from itself?

[hucker]

hucker @leocg last edited by

@leocg There should be. People reinstall all the time. You need to import form a backup. It's like an Englishman understanding French and German, but not English!

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @hucker last edited by

@hucker If you are just reinstalling, you probably still have all your data.

And if you have a backup, you can just replace the files in the proper directory.

[hucker]

hucker @leocg last edited by

@leocg I had to in the end. There was a reason I didn't want to which I now can't remember. I think I didn't want to overwrite what I'd created, and merge them. Seems very weird it can't understand it's own bookmarks on import.