I still have my original Opera account (several years old), which the username is my email address. When I log into the forums with it, it says I can't post because I haven't verified my email address. However, if I go to the profile form to verify/update my email address, it will not let me save the form because my username IS my email address (which it marks as invalid. However, the form field for username is NOT editable!

So it's a Catch 22. I can't post because my email address isn't verified, and I can't verify because my username isn't valid, and I can't change my username. To top it off, there is no "support contact" to get a hold of, to get the problem resolved, and I can't post to the forums!

I had to make this new, separate forum account, just to post this! Can someone contact me to get my other account fixed?

I'm not trying to see old blog posts or anything. I wanted to post an issue here on the forums, but couldn't for the reasons above. So I needed to make a new account (this one), using an email address that I don't want to use for an Opera forums account, just to post that my account was broken.

So I just want to unbreak my regular account. Surely there is a moderator or someone around that has the permissions to change my username, or something.

Are you just being funny? Checking my email box for what? The verification email in like 2006, or whenever I made the account?

The form won't let me save any changes now, so it's not updating anything to kick off a new email, because my established username does not conform to the validation standards (because of the @ maybe?).

I guess that's point #4 of my "viscious loop" statement... 4. I can't get a new verification email, because I can't save the form.

And... 5. I can't talk to anyone really in Opera support, via chat/phone/email/etc. I have to post on community forums.

I'm not sure where a "hacked account" would come into play. In any case, to my knowledge, neither account has been hacked, or shows obvious signs of it. My Opera account shows my email address... as both the username and email, so it's not pointing to another [hacked] address or anything.

My guess is that it's just some remnant of how my account was created, many moons ago, and then somewhere along the line, between database upgrades, changes to new forum systems, and the enacting of new code and field validations, my account managed to wiggle itself into a situation that was never imagined could happen. So someone with "real power", probably needs to forcibly change my username/email in the system, force resend the verification email, manually mark me verified, or edit my DB record.

Also, this is a new problem. I last posted (with my problem account, not this new one I made to get help) in September. All was fine for years, through at least September.

Ok, let me clarify...

1. I go to the Opera forums login page. It says to log in with username or email.
2. I enter either my username OR email. Tried it both ways, in Opera, Chrome, and IE.
3. I get no "New Post" button on the forum, because my email isn't verified.
4. I click the link in the "email isn't verified" message, which takes me to my profile page (username, name, email, etc.).
5. The username field gets autopopulated with my email address, regardless if I logged in with username or email. There is a big "NO" symbol next to the username, and it says it's an invalid entry.
6. The invalid text of the username box is grey, and not editable.
7. If I try to change any of the other boxes and click save, or even just click save without changing anything, the Save button does nothing. (And remember, I tried this in IE, Opera, and Chrome, hoping it was just some bad site code or something, and another browser would like the Save button.)

So, I'm stuck in a vicious loop...

1. I can't post because my email isn't verified.
2. I can't verify my email because I can't save the form.
3. I can't save the form because my username is invalid.

I'm not trying to see old blog posts or anything. I wanted to post an issue here on the forums, but couldn't for the reasons above. So I needed to make a new account (this one), using an email address that I don't want to use for an Opera forums account, just to post that my account was broken.

So I just want to unbreak my regular account. Surely there is a moderator or someone around that has the permissions to change my username, or something.

I still have my original Opera account (several years old), which the username is my email address. When I log into the forums with it, it says I can't post because I haven't verified my email address. However, if I go to the profile form to verify/update my email address, it will not let me save the form because my username IS my email address (which it marks as invalid. However, the form field for username is NOT editable!

So it's a Catch 22. I can't post because my email address isn't verified, and I can't verify because my username isn't valid, and I can't change my username. To top it off, there is no "support contact" to get a hold of, to get the problem resolved, and I can't post to the forums!

I had to make this new, separate forum account, just to post this! Can someone contact me to get my other account fixed?

I run Opera on several computers. I do not copy my profile between the computers manually (sneakernet), but I do/have had Synchronization enabled. I have noticed that over time the browser gets slower and slower, to the point that recently it would freeze solid for 5-10 seconds, then work normally for 5 seconds, then freeze, repeat, CONSTANTLY. It become unusable.

I tried a lot of things to troubleshoot. I read about Flash permission issues, which helped a little. Then I deleted (moved away) all my profile data from C:\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable and suddenly it became super-responsive again.

I played with it some more, deleting just one config file at a time. I noticed that the Sessions.db has grown to 350-550MB, depending on which machine we're talking about! When I delete that, Opera becomes responsive again. So my fix is currently to write down all the tabs I have open, delete all the Session.* files, start fresh, and open up all my tabs again. It immediately cures Opera... though I don't know how long until it builds up the huge DB again (currently at 40MB after 2 days).

I have Opera set to open from the previous session, where I left off. Those Session.db's have also been building since first upgrading after v12, and all the updates since. So I don't know if it's just that Opera never cleans up the DB because it's all the same session, or if it's an upgrade corruption, or whatever. (I'm sad to see the flat file that I could read, from <v12, go away.)

Anybody have any insight on this? Are there settings I can adjust to make the Session.db behave better? Is this just a bug? Am I using the browser in a way the developers just couldn't imagine, so I'm "breaking it"?