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30. November 2011, 00:01:42

peterx666

Posts: 103

Why is Opera trashing my bookmarks?

I have been using opera for many years; I am running Opera 11.52 at the moment and having problems

When I import bookmarks they seem to duplicate the folders again so I thought I would try Opera link as I have another computer

Now I am in real trouble as the other computer (running windows 7 ) does not allow the bookmarks to save down - worse still when I try link on the original computer it loses most of the folders and dumps everything in about 6 list just jumbled up

What a mess! can anyone help?

Can I wipe all the bookmarks out and load an old copy?

Pete

11. December 2011, 15:50:12

peterx666

Posts: 103

anyone any ideas?

11. December 2011, 22:44:46

blackbird71

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Posts: 1662

Originally posted by peterx666:

...Can I wipe all the bookmarks out and load an old copy?

The bookmarks.adr file should be compatible across all modern versions, and you should be able to copy it over top of the current file (though, just in case, you may want to first backup the current one somewhere safe - but not to the same subfolder where an old bookmarks file is stored). Just be sure to have Opera turned off when you copy a bookmarks file into Opera's user folders or Opera will re-overwrite a just-copied-in file with "current" bookmarks stuff from RAM.
Opera 12.14u (1738), 11.52 (1100) & 10.63 (3576) running on various Windows systems from Win7-64 down through KernelEx4-modified Win98FE (proof that reports of Win98's demise are greatly exaggerated).

12. December 2011, 21:07:24

peterx666

Posts: 103

This is when I am trying to use Opera link from one machine to another - just keeps adding more and more duplicate bookmarks

Suppose the answer is to stop using the technology and just copy the ADR file from one machine to another with a memory stick - oh well!

pete

14. December 2011, 22:54:04

peterx666

Posts: 103

noticed - not only is it duplicating folders - things have been removed from the folders as well!

Dont understand?????


pete

19. December 2011, 21:22:25

peterx666

Posts: 103

Have now disabled all the sync things and loaded a 4 month old copy which works OK now (lost a lot but not all)

Needed to activate the administrator account in DOS to enable me to overwrite the ADR files

pete
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