Next question (and leushino not forced but it did ask if I wanted to update and since all previous updates had been totally painless I did): I have imported individual bookmarks and they show on the bar, but I can't import the bookmark folders, I click the import and it imports the folders but then nothing shows up on the bar and when I go back it shows that I haven't imported the folder.

Thank you lifesavers!!! Importing done, and hopefully new(est) version of Opera will revert back to the old fashion bookmarks folder X/ seriously sometimes people are too clever for their own good. Oh well, you get what you pay for and hopefully when Opera 25 hits, they will automatically import bookmarks from earlier versions.

So I was more or less forced to update to the latest version of Opera, and now all my bookmarks from the earlier version are gone?! This has not been a problem for any Opera update apart from this one. I loathe the new bookmark system with a separate bar across the top of the window, what was wrong with the old fashioned fold down menu bookmarks folder? And why is it suddenly complicated to make a new bookmark? Gah, tearing my hair over this. I tried to google and Opera help but no info on how not to import bookmarks from another browser but the old (now presumably deleted) version of Opera. Uh, anybody help?