Good question - where are the bookmarks?
How do I import bookmarks if there is not prior Opera installation?
After reading this thread, it appears that I am to intuit that first I'm to install Google Chrome, import my bookmarks to them, export them to something else, and then import to Opera from Chrome. I went to Opera to avoid Chrome in the first place! ANd then I discover that Opera apparently does not support frames, whcih is kind of critical when the CAD software "Help" files require them. WHich was one of the reasons I was attempting to go back to Opera after all these years - I need to use those help files!
As for importing bookmakes (some how) and then sorting them manually.... if I only had a dozen or so, it might be viable. But I have more than a dozen bookmarks, the html file is 738K, and the toolbar starts with 8 buttons for the top level on the Bookmarks toolbar.
I wanted to get Opera up and running so I could get back to work. I already have enough non-sequitor "instructions" which make no sense, I didn't need another layer of nurdling cordwainers prior to deplenrating the nurfor trunion dingle arms.