Can I create a file that contains a copy of my Opera bookmarks ?
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dadgren last edited by
I need to do a reset on mt Windows 8.1 computer. I would like to create a file that I can save on my external hard drive. After the reset I will reinstall Opera and hopefully reinsert the bookmarks from my external hard drive.
I am not sure this can be done. Anyone have any suggestions?
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A Former User last edited by
State your Opera version.
In the Good Ole One your can easily do that.
Even with nuOpera, it stores your bookmarks in a file, which you could copy to an external drive etc. -
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dadgren last edited by
Sorry it took a WHOLE YEAR to reply. I never got an email with your posts.
My opera version is now 36.02130.48 I have a Windows 10 (64bit) system.I will look at About opera.
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A Former User last edited by
Welcome back!
The bookmarks file is in the profile folder on all versions of Opera.
On the current versions, it's just called "Bookmarks" with no file extension.
On old Presto Opera it's called "bookmarks.adr".
As sgunhouse said, you might as well back up the whole profile folder, and that will cover your history, passwords etc. as well as your bookmarks.
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dadgren last edited by
Hi Dave,
I did get an email about your comment. I found Bookmarks and opened it with WordPad then saved it in Rich Text (links are shown in blue and are live in rich text). I saved the bookmarks as a document.
I'm working on backing up the whole Opera folder, but I never turned on "file history" in Windows 10 and likely this is not the way to backup the Opera folder.
I know I can "copy the Opera folder" to my external hard drive. But I am very unsure of how to restore or reinsert it when needed.
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lando242 last edited by
You just delete the one you want to replace and drop your backup where it used to be. Its that simple.
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A Former User last edited by
I'm not sure why you opened the Bookmarks file in WordPad and then saved it as Rich Text.
As you have changed its format by doing that, it's surely very likely that Opera would not now be able to use it if you needed to restore it as a backup.
Make sure you save the file somewhere exactly as it is, as well as your Rich Text version if you need to have that as well!
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dadgren last edited by
Hi Dave,
I opened it with WordPad just because I wanted to see the contents of the Bookmarks file. Then it occurred to me I could save it as a document. Not to reinsert it but just as a backup. Because I used Rich Text the listed URL's are live. That means I can use the Opera Bookmarks document and click on a link and that will open in any browser I set as default. I can also edit the Bookmarks document because there is a lot of text that could be deleted. The live links are pretty much all I need in my document.
I copied the whole Opera folder to my external hard drive. So bookmarks are in there.
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A Former User last edited by
better solution would be to export your bookmarks as HTML
this way you can open it in any browser as document (not only in wordpad, and then click to default browser)
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dadgren last edited by
I did a Google search on how the export Opera bookmarks in HTML. I found there is an Opera extension "Bookmarks Import & Export".
The ways described in my Google search for earlier versions of Opera do not work in my Opera 36.0
https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/bookmarks-import-export/
@davehawley
It would have been smarter to "copy" the bookmarks file to "Documents" then open the copy, save as rich text and rename it. I was lucky that the way I did it, the original bookmarks file was not changed in any way.
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A Former User last edited by
have you tried V7 Bookmarks ?
there is an export functionality on settings page -
dadgren last edited by
Was that last post some kind of spam?
(Ha Ha a little joke). You created the "V7 Bookmarks" extension and took your sweet time telling me about it.
I'm an old man and need a nap before I check out your extension. It looks complicated to my old, tired and feeble mind.
The "Bookmarks Import & Export" extension works well, but it only does imports and exports.
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A Former User last edited by
@dadgren
yea, I'm the author
don't worry...there are big green buttons for everything
(export etc)
in previous post you wrote that Bkm export import extension doesn't work -
dadgren last edited by
I was trying to say the procedures suggested from my Google search did not work. For example one said open Opera settings then click on import and export - so that one did not work because I could not find import and export anywhere in settings.
I should have been more clear that the "Bookmarks Import & Export" extension works very well.
I wish I could edit that earlier post because I see your point my earlier post is confusing.
If that extension did not work I would not have posted a link to it.
Just to be clear the link below is to an extension that works well.
https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/bookmarks-import-export/
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
For example one said open Opera settings then click on import and export - so that one did not work because I could not find import and export anywhere in settings.
Those are instructions for Opera Presto (Opera 12.18 and older) and they do not apply for Opera Chromium (Opera 15+).
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