Disco Stu

Stu's Opera Settings Import & Export Tool

Saturday, May 1, 2010 12:26:03 PM

OSIE, Export, Import, Settings, Stu's Opera Settings Tool

My original site is down for a bit, so for now I've moved things here to my Opera blog space.

A little freeware tool I wrote to take some of the pain out of managing/migrating/backing up/restoring Opera profiles. It allows backup and restore of your bookmarks, mail, contacts, sessions, preferences, etc and enables easy transfer of them between Opera installations in different folders or OSes. Also good for finding and restoring lost settings if they disappeared after an Opera upgrade...

The program should work fine, but making a manual backup of your settings before using it is never a bad idea. And if you have any suggestions or find any bugs, drop me a line!

Features:

Easy to use
Lets you preview your settings before importing or exporting
Allows cleanly transferring individual settings without the cruft that can build up in an Opera profile folder
Available for both Windows and Linux, and your settings can be transferred between OSes
Intelligently locates all the Opera profiles on a typical Windows system, so good for finding "lost" profiles
Stores settings files in their original state in an open archive (tar.gz) format, so your exported settings can always be easily restored by hand should the need arise
Corrects .ini paths on import so settings imported from a different folder/OS work correctly

Current version: 0.993

Download:

Windows version (515 kB) - download, unzip and run.
Linux (GTK2) version 850 kB) - download, mark as executable and run.

Screenshot:

Changelog:

0.993

Update check updated for the homepage change and made more robust

0.992

Added User Javascripts category
Fixed a problem on Windows 7 where checkboxes weren't clickable
Fixed a crash on Ubuntu 10.04 (and possibly other newer Linux distros)

0.991

Now compatible with Opera 10.5
Added Spellcheck Dictionaries category
Miscellaneous small fixes

0.99

Fixed a crasher caused by certain characters in typed history entries
Added "Bookmark/Search Icons" category, so bookmark/search/personal bar icons can be preserved on import
Full Opera 10 compatibility, including Widgets category expanded to include Opera Unite services

0.98

Updated to handle the changed folder structure in Opera 10 on Windows
Fixed a rare bug with paths in the prefs that have trailing slashes

0.97

More UI fixes and polish, and an application icon
Will now gracefully handle Opera's changing default file names (bookmarks.adr/opera6.adr, global.dat/global_history.dat, opera.dir/typed_history.xml)

0.95

Updated to handle the Opera 9.6+ XML typed history format
A couple of minor path issues on Linux corrected
Some small UI tweaks and fixes
Debug log is not written by default now, run with -debug if you want it

0.93 beta

Fixed a gzip CRC error when exporting which made the tar.gz archive appear to be corrupt

0.92 beta

Added the option to delete old settings on import rather than just renaming them
Don't prevent choosing an empty directory for export, just give a warning (allows starting from scratch and then picking and choosing what to export)
Fixed a scrollbar update issue on Linux

0.9 beta