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!DISASTER! Opera went to 2008
Hi everyone. I'm desperate. I lost hundreds of bookmarks passwords etc etc etcI had electricity breakdown. When it went back on, I launched my Opera (10.01) and it went to all settings as of august 2008:
- bookmarks
- passwords
- history
- settings
Everything is like it was in 2008 apart from the browser version. Also it's a bit slow and some images have artifacts - for example the red thing at the top of this forum looks like a badly compressed jpeg. I tried opening it in Firefox and it looked perfectly fine.
Other stuff including other browsers seems to be fine, but Opera was the main one for me. It's like most of my internetz are gone! *cries* *multiple table-faceplant* Is there a way to bring it back?
I found a file called 'incoming1.txt' It was the list of my RSS feeds. So I can re-subsribe. But the biggest problem is that I can't seem to find any of my bookmarks created later than august 2008. That's literally tragic. Any help would be much appreciated.
Version 10.01 Build 1844 Platform Win32 System Windows XP Java Sun Java Runtime Environment version 1.6 XHTML+Voice Plug-in not loaded Browser identification Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.01
Originally posted by Pandamasque:
Also it's a bit slow and some images have artifacts - for example the red thing at the top of this forum looks like a badly compressed jpeg
This sounds like Turbo. There should be a speedometer icon at bottom left to turn Turbo off - see if that helps.
Originally posted by Pandamasque:
the biggest problem is that I can't seem to find any of my bookmarks
Take a look in the folder listed <a href="opera:config#opera directory">here</a> for any files named "something.adr" - they might have your bookmarks in them.
For future reference - you might be interested in Opera Link (the icon with two arrows in a circle at bottom-right) which backs up your bookmarks online automatically.
Yes. Turbo thing is on, never seen it before yesterday.
ADR files:
profile\bookmarks.adr dated today, I tried importing this file yesterday, but it was the same set of bookmarks from august 2008. (86kb)
profile\custom\defaults\bookmarks.adr dated 2009 (3kb)
unite, notes, widgets (all ~2kb, seem irrelevant).
The thing I can't get my head round is how the hell did it not only delete the original profile\bookmarks.adr file but replaced it with that ancient one!
Can anything be retrieved from temp files?
ADR files:
profile\bookmarks.adr dated today, I tried importing this file yesterday, but it was the same set of bookmarks from august 2008. (86kb)
profile\custom\defaults\bookmarks.adr dated 2009 (3kb)
unite, notes, widgets (all ~2kb, seem irrelevant).
The thing I can't get my head round is how the hell did it not only delete the original profile\bookmarks.adr file but replaced it with that ancient one!
Can anything be retrieved from temp files?
Try to look at your Documents and Settings folder if there is not more user profiles in it. Maybe your user profile accidentanly changed after an electricity breakdown to some you used in 2008. Try to find *.adr files in all user profiles in Documents and Settings if there is not any newer.
I don't think I ever changed my profile.
However I think I found 1 day old backups for most of the valuable stuff!
in case anyone runs into similar trouble, try replacing the files at
C:\Program Files\Opera\Opera\profile (backup first!)
with these
C:\Documents and Settings\=user name=\Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile
Most of them have identical names, however bookmarks were stored as opara6.adr instead of the default bookmarks.adr name.
I scanned the system (there were some minor errors apparently), now I'm working on finding the backup for opera preferences and appearance. I also found an ini file with the list of my RSS feeds, not sure if I can integrate it back in, I might need to re-subscribe.
Crucially the bookmarks and wand are restored!
However I think I found 1 day old backups for most of the valuable stuff!
in case anyone runs into similar trouble, try replacing the files at
C:\Program Files\Opera\Opera\profile (backup first!)
with these
C:\Documents and Settings\=user name=\Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile
Most of them have identical names, however bookmarks were stored as opara6.adr instead of the default bookmarks.adr name.
I scanned the system (there were some minor errors apparently), now I'm working on finding the backup for opera preferences and appearance. I also found an ini file with the list of my RSS feeds, not sure if I can integrate it back in, I might need to re-subscribe.
Crucially the bookmarks and wand are restored!
Aha - I think I know what may have happened here. It seems some corrupted settings file managed to switch you from a single user to a multi-user profile, or vice versa.
The C:\Documents and Settings\...... \profile folder is where multi-user profiles are stored, the C:\Program Files\..... \profile is where single-user profile's are stored.
I'm guessing you were using a single-user one in 2008, switched at some point to a multi-user one (the Opera installer can do this automatically on upgrade - there's a checkbox) and then you somehow got switched back during your big blackout. That's my theory anyway. Single-user is an option in the installer - it defaults to multi-user. You can also set it in the C:\Program Files\Opera\operaprefs_default.ini file
The C:\Documents and Settings\...... \profile folder is where multi-user profiles are stored, the C:\Program Files\..... \profile is where single-user profile's are stored.
I'm guessing you were using a single-user one in 2008, switched at some point to a multi-user one (the Opera installer can do this automatically on upgrade - there's a checkbox) and then you somehow got switched back during your big blackout. That's my theory anyway. Single-user is an option in the installer - it defaults to multi-user. You can also set it in the C:\Program Files\Opera\operaprefs_default.ini file
Originally posted by lucideer:
For future reference - you might be interested in Opera Link (the icon with two arrows in a circle at bottom-right) which backs up your bookmarks online automatically.
I would be very wary of using Opera Link as a backup system!
Look what happened to the unfortunate guy here!
I always keep a backup of the bookmarks.adr file somewhere on my system, which I update regularly, and certainly after I make any major changes to my bookmarks.
I have also found that Opera Link can just wipe your bookmarks if it doesn't find any to synchronise.
It should be programmed to ignore "empty" databases, it's very silly that it doesn't.
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