Warm regards and best wishes for your clearly well intentioned help and research.
I have decided that it should not be this difficult and is way beyond where I wanted to be. I will wait until Opera sorts it and tells the world it is sorted.

Thanks very much blokes, adios!

I'm wondering if I have a dud copy.
The .adr file under the Opera 21 install is showing more than k in size yet I have three added bookmarks in the bookmarks taskbar.

There does seem to be a complete lack of previous version's bookmark menu approach to accessing the stored bookmarks.

I feel that Opera has creept me out.

Thanx blokes!

I have installed Opera v12.15 into the Win 7 enviro and imported the .adr via the bookmarks import process in V12.15.

Opening Opera 21 in the Win 7 enviro I still do not have the

Opera (Customize and Control) button / More Tools / Bookmark Importer link live and I cannot find any way to transfer from the earlier to the latest.

Any further suggestions appreciated.

Cheers folks!!

oops! and

Thank you very much for your reply too.....

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sorry - it is confusing.

I have installed Win 7 as the NTLDR and NDETECT files were corrupted on Win XPsp3.

The opsys install was to a different harddrive and I left the WinXP install intact. WinXPsp3 has Opera 12 or whatever is the latest version before 21.

I installed Opera 21 onto the Win7 environment.

It did not detect nor install the earlier version Opera bookmarks or anything else from the redundant version. I did not expect it to do this, however I could not see how to transfer the bookmarks from the earlier version to the new version 21. I can locate the .adr file in the directory established by Opera v12.0. If I only have to copy this file over then I can do that but to which Target directory in Opera 21 install?

The Opera (Customize and Control) button / More Tools / Bookmark Importer link is not live on the version 21 Opera installed under Win 7 on my machine and I cannot find any way to transfer from the earlier to the latest.

the
Opera (Customize and Control) button / More Tools / Bookmark Importer link is not live.

I am running Win 7 newly intalled.
Upgraded to Opera 21 from 15 on WinXPsp3.
Install did not bring across my bookmarks and there does not appear to be any way of doing this in Opera 21.