Hi @leocg it turned out that what was actually causing the
problem was a virus which caused Opera to crash but I cleared
the virus with anti virus software and I followed the instructions from the link that you gave me and everything is back up and
running again and I got all my bookmarks back thank goodness,
anyway thanks again for the help.

Hi @leocg thanks for the reply I'll give that a try and let you know if it worked.

Hi if I try to open Opera I get no response its just gone
completely dead I double click on the shortcut and I tried
to double click on the exe and nothing happens its just dead
so I thought I probably just need to reinstall it but I can't
open it to backup my bookmarks is there a manual way to back
up my bookmarks without having to open Opera pleeezz I
don't want to lose those, thanks in advance.