OK, thanks very much. However, I've just read one of the last posts on this thread, which says that only bookmarks that were on the old bookmarks toolbar will show up on the QAB; I didn't have a toolbar in Opera 12, just the side panel accessed with CTRL-B, so if that's the case, I'll be joining the ranks of ex-Opera users, I'm afraid.

Anyway, I'll read through the whole of this thread and the one you linked to tomorrow, and try and make some sense of it - thanks very much for your help.

Pity that Opera couldn't have made something so fundamentally useful a bit more obvious or intuitive, though.

Mary

I've just downloaded Opera 18, and I must say I'm pretty horrified.

I've been an Opera user for many years, and always been pretty happy with it. I decided to upgrade today from Opera 12 because Flash no longer seems to work with it (I can't view youtube videos, etc.).

But why on earth have they messed up the bookmarks?

I've skimmed through the thread, but it doesn't help, because no quick access bookmark bar is displayed, and if I try to import my Opera 12 bookmarks it only gives me the option to import to Speed Dial, which is pointless because I have hundreds of bookmarks. The Opera help is quite useless on this topic.

Can anyone explain whether and how I can force it to display the quick access bookmark bar and let me import my bookmarks to it?

I already use Firefox for sites that don't perform well with Opera, but it's much slower, so I'd rather stick with Opera if this major problem can be fixed.

Thanks a lot,
Mary