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Moving Opera mail client folder
Hello,I need to change the directory where Opera mail client stores all the e-mails. In previous versions it was possible by changing a line in opera6.ini - how to do it in 10.53?
I use Windows 7 64-bit, in my about page I see the path "AppData\Local\Opera\Opera\mail".
Thank you in advance for any help.
Actually, opera:config IS the answer. It is just not automatic. You have to move the folder to the new location yourself.
Before you start - BACKUP. Always a good idea.
Look in opera:config and locate "Mail Root Directory"
Note what this value shows, and go and open that folder. THIS is your current Mail Tree.
Change the location in "Mail Root Directory" to point to where you want your mail to be.
CLOSE Opera.
Now MOVE your "mail" folder from the location it was in, to your new location as you have specified in the preferences.
Now open Opera and you will find mail will be working for you from the new location.
Note: If you use signature files, you may need to update the location of these separately.
Basically - the whole of the mail store is in that folder tree under "mail". That is what you should be backing up if you want to keep a backup of your mailbox.
Before you start - BACKUP. Always a good idea.
Look in opera:config and locate "Mail Root Directory"
Note what this value shows, and go and open that folder. THIS is your current Mail Tree.
Change the location in "Mail Root Directory" to point to where you want your mail to be.
CLOSE Opera.
Now MOVE your "mail" folder from the location it was in, to your new location as you have specified in the preferences.
Now open Opera and you will find mail will be working for you from the new location.
Note: If you use signature files, you may need to update the location of these separately.
Basically - the whole of the mail store is in that folder tree under "mail". That is what you should be backing up if you want to keep a backup of your mailbox.
Happy Opera user since v3.5x back in the previous Century
6. July 2010, 07:21:25 (edited)
Originally posted by Lixt:
Is it a good idea to have one "Mail Root Directory" for two instances of Opera, one of which is installed on Linux and another on Windows?
Do both Opera installations have to be the same version for that?
I think it should generally by OK as long as you're using the same version on both machines and don't have both Operas running at the same time. You could even use different versions as long as you know both version don't do anything different with mail.
But, contacts.adr (your abook) and wand.dat (your passwords, including mail ones) are not stored in the mail folder. Because of this, it might be better to also share the "Wand Storage File" location and the "AddressFile" location. But, if you also use a Master Password, opcert6.dat comes into play and you'd then want to share the preferences folder too. Then, if you get into certs with smtp/imap/pop, you also might want to share the preferences folder.
Further, I think the mail client uses some of the cache directories one level up from the mail folder to deal with attachments temporarily etc. So, you might want to share those locations too.
But, simply sharing the mail folder might work. Having tried it though. Can't say it's a good idea or bad idea exactly.
burnout426, thank you for helping me. I tried it and everything is all right for now.
Fortunately, attachments are stored in the "mail" folder, or more exactly in the "/mail/store" folder judging by it's size.
Anyway, sharing the "cache" folder could save me 0.5GB or even more. I just wonder if it's worth placing 23 497 files of the "cache" folder on a FAT 32 partition (known for it's fragmentation issues)?
Fortunately, attachments are stored in the "mail" folder, or more exactly in the "/mail/store" folder judging by it's size.
Anyway, sharing the "cache" folder could save me 0.5GB or even more. I just wonder if it's worth placing 23 497 files of the "cache" folder on a FAT 32 partition (known for it's fragmentation issues)?
I have spread my copy of Opera over multiple drives. The Mail lives on a different drive to the cache which is separate to the application.
There is no point in sharing the cache as your two different OS will always be putting different stuff into that cache. You will be looking at different webpages in each OS.
Do you have a spare old hard drive you can partition up a bit? Half in a Linux format, half in NTFS. Then dump Opera's Cache, as well as OS Temp Folders, and the like here? (I have Google's Earth Cache on the same drive). And as they are caches, there is no need to defrag - just empty the folders if looking messy. Can even be an old drive as it does not matter if it suddenly fails if it is only ever cache and temp data.
There is no point in sharing the cache as your two different OS will always be putting different stuff into that cache. You will be looking at different webpages in each OS.
Do you have a spare old hard drive you can partition up a bit? Half in a Linux format, half in NTFS. Then dump Opera's Cache, as well as OS Temp Folders, and the like here? (I have Google's Earth Cache on the same drive). And as they are caches, there is no need to defrag - just empty the folders if looking messy. Can even be an old drive as it does not matter if it suddenly fails if it is only ever cache and temp data.
Happy Opera user since v3.5x back in the previous Century
Originally posted by Lixt:
Do both Opera installations have to be the same version for that?
You will need to make sure you keep both copies of Opera at the same version. Or keep close reading of the changelog. Every so often Opera will change the way the mail database is stored, and on those occasions you will need to be sure both copies of Opera are at the same level.
Happy Opera user since v3.5x back in the previous Century
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