@burnout426 Not that it's that important now, since I got my situation figured out, but I did make sure to show hidden files and folders. At least I confirmed that before reading your advise. Not sure if shutting down and rebooting reset that to hiding those files and folders.

@burnout426 Not that it's that important now, since I got my situation figured out, but I did make sure to show hidden files and folders. At least I confirmed that before reading your advise. Not sure if shutting down and rebooting reset that to hiding those files and folders.

@burnout426 Thanks for the info. I downloaded JSONedit with thoughts of trying the more advanced solution (partly for the learning experience) but wasn't able to download the file because the Appdata folder where the file resides wasn't visible. Still, I'll bookmark your response for future needs.

Maybe because I don't understand how all the behind the scenes stuff works, but it's odd to me that Opera doesn't have an easy/intuitive solution to this where it would read the JSON file instead of only having and HTML as an option.

@leocg Thanks. This is what wound up working for me. Easy fix. Obvious. But messing around with files and extensions make me nervous since I'm not that good when it comes to all of the things that happen behind the scenes and in the background that makes things work.

@leocg When I looked in the Trash there was nothing there. I get the feeling while hovered over the bookmark folder on the bookmark bar I right-clicked and selected something, but I don't know what I could have selected (other than move to Trash) that would have resulted in the folder no longer being in the bookmark bar, or anywhere else I can see within Opera.

I closed down Opera and re-opened with the hope that all would be back to where it was, but no dice.

I'd be fine with just using the bookmarks.bak file that was last updated a couple of days ago, but I'm not sure how to restore using that file, or changing that file to become the new bookmarks file from where Opera will read. I have a bit of fear about experimenting in search of a solution and somehow making the situation worse by eliminating all of my bookmarks.

Somehow I accidently deleted a folder from the bookmarks bar and I'm having some troubles restoring things to how they were. I've done a Google search and located the file on my C: drive:

C:\Users\USUARIO\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable

I see the files named 'Bookmarks' and 'Bookmarks.bak,' but when I try to access from Opera by using "Import bookmarks and settings... > Bookmarks HTML file" the file is not shown as an option. Both files are not in folders and shown below all available folders when I search with file manager. I'm assuming neither are HTML files, and so are not shown as options.

So how do I get Opera to access this file (I'm assuming just "Bookmarks" is the one I want)? The file is listed as being modified at around the time the accidental deletion happened. I'm hoping it's before. The "Bookmarks.BAK" file was modified two days ago, so I know for sure it would be there and any added bookmarks over the last two days don't concern me.

Also, is there a way to just add/restore one specific bookmark folder while leaving the rest as is, or is bookmark restoration and all or nothing kind of deal?

I had Opera on my old spinning hard disk and just installed a new SSD that I'm using as a boot drive for Windows 10 and other programs. I changed the name of my old C: drive to now be X: drive and reinstalled a new version of Opera on the new C: drive. I'd like to bring over all of my bookmarks.

I'm guessing the solution is as simple as copying and pasting/overwriting a folder but I'm not sure exactly what folder that would be because I haven't come across a folder that only contains bookmarks. The closest I've come is finding three Bookmarks files in the Local Disk (X:) > Users > ADMIN > AppData > Roaming > Opera Software > Opera Stable folder. But since this folder contains so many other files and folders I'm a bit hesitant to copy/overwrite to the new C: drive.

Thanks for any help.