Copying Saved Sessions to Another Computer

5. June 2010, 23:54:51

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The hard drive is failing on my four-year-old MacBook Pro, and I'm about three or four weeks away from possibly getting laid off, so I'm pinching pennies. Since I can't really afford a new hard drive right now, someone told me I could copy my hard drive to an external hard drive I picked up some time ago.

However, I'm running Leopard on my laptop, but I'll probably install the newer Snow Leopard on my external drive, then reinstall all my software, including Opera, from scratch.

To get to the point, how do I copy all my saved Opera sessions on my current hard drive, then reinstall them on my external hard drive?

Thank you.

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6. June 2010, 00:04:01

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Copy sessions directory from old Opera directory to new Opera directory.

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6. June 2010, 00:07:04

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Find the location of your profile folder by going <a href="opera:about">here</a> or <a href="opera:config#Opera Directory">here</a>, then go to that directory, copy/compress/etc that entire folder (excluding "cache" and "opcache" if you want to save some space), then when you install Opera again, simply replace the default/new profile, with the stuff you saved.

Edit: Damnit... ah well... more is better than less.

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6. June 2010, 00:41:21

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Thanks for the tips. Once I found the directory, I discovered that I can open the Sessions files with a text editor. That might be an even better strategy for me, as I have SO many saved sessions to wade through.

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