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Today I factory reset my Android smartphone after a long time (some apps misbehaved and a clean reset was needed).
When I logged in my Opera account I've noticed a weird behavior: the passphrase wasn't asked as it was when I've logged in the last time (and all the times since I've enabled a passphrase).
Sync is on, "View your synchronized data" shows all the content that got synchronized (some items can't be seen and have an exclamation mark that states "information is encrypted").
But in Settings - Personal data there's nothing synchronized.
I let it sync about two hours without any luck.

Is the sync engine down or misbehaving?

Yesterday I backed up all the contents of Opera Stable profile folder, using the path from Help/About Opera C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable, thinking to restore this folder content when I'll reinstall Opera on freshly reset Windows 10 PC.

Today, after I reinstalled Opera, I went to Profile folder, deleted the newly created content and copied previously saved content, just to notice it had no effect - no addons, no settings, no bookmarks, no speed dials were imported like in the old profile. It's like Opera doesn't give a d..mn about the extra files and folders present in that Profile Folder.

Can somebody confirm this method is no longer working?

@mellofellow Thanks! I'll try these suggestions, for sure, but when I'll have the time. It seems a lenghty job.

@mellofellow I have 31 enabled extensions Of course, not all of them are configurable but half of them are. So, you see the struggle.
So, about the Opera settings and extensions, I guess I must follow your suggestions...

Too bad.

@mellofellow thanks for the complete guide.
I have dials, bookmarks and passwords synced with my credentials (and encrypted). These are easily recoverable by logging in. I don't care about open tabs.
The struggle i have is about Opera settings, extensions and extensions settings.

I tried to replace all the files and subfolders in new Opera installation Profile folder with old Opera profile files and subfolders. As soon as the new Opera started, I looked in Extensions subfolder and saw all those long names subfolders just disappearing. New Opera just deletes what it isn't created in the new profile.

So, I found no possibility to recover old Opera settings, extensions and extensions settings, like in other browsers.

@mellofellow So, what could be the best way to migrate complete Opera & its stuff to another computer or to a new Windows installation?

About a couple of months ago I've noticed that pinned extensions are hiding after starting Opera, although Extensions Cube is showing that some extensions are pined (exactly as I pinned them). Only if I unpin and pin back one extensions reveals the pinned extensions bar.

Is this a feature or a bug?

[Opera versions is the latest. ]