As I wasn't in the best mental state it's hard to tell what I've done, really. I guess I might have installed the older version and still had the newer version on my pc, but then by installing the newer version again messed with it that way. I do have folders for v22 and v39 in my program files, but they don't seem to contain anything related to bookmarks. In my appdata there's an 'Opera Stable' folder which contains a few files related to bookmarks, however they appear to be on default settings.

I think it's safe to assume at this point they're lost, let this be a lesson to you all! (Don't listen to Larry)

Hey guys, so I mucked up a bit.
I was pretty drunk last night and while watching a youtube video or something of the sort, opera decided it wanted to maximise offscreen, which as you can imagine was a bit hard for me to comprehend. So I called Larry and he recommended I install an older version of Opera to fix any bugs. I found an installer for Opera 22.0.1471.70 and went with that. Looking back at it now, Larry might not have meant install a version from 2014 cause that version is super out of date. Oh yeah, I'm using a windows 10 laptop too.

Anyway, the offscreen maximising issue was still happening, so I figured I should install the latest version, which I did. Turns out I could just hover over the taskbar icon and hit maximise to restore it to its regular position, so I felt like a bit of a numpty. But, upon going to my bookmarks/speed dial etc, there was nothing in there. I've sort of had a look around and asked Larry if he knew how to get them back, but he wasn't sure. Although they are precious to me, I'm not too fussed if there's no way to get them back 'cause it was my fault after all.

Anyone know if I might be able to get these bookmarks back? Everything else is working a-ok.