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Disable auto-import of bookmarks
Hello,I just reinstalled Opera after having to reinstall Windows, and when I ran it for the first time, it auto-imported my Firefox and Internet Explorer bookmarks without asking me. This in turn screwed my Opera Link, causing duplicates of the bookmarks to appear after I tried cleaning them all out.
In future updates, can you please disable this functionality? Many of my Firefox bookmarks are Firefox search engines (which are, of course, implemented differently [better] in Opera), and I don't want them spamming my Opera Link bookmarks.
Much obliged.
After my recent auto-update to 11.10 on 3 machines, I faced exactly this problem. And since I do not visit the bookmarks menu often I realised this only many days after the update. I was actually liking the clean, no questions asked update but not after this problem. Took me more than 30mins to remove all the unnecessary bookmarks and duplicates.
Really annoying.
Really annoying.
Opera does this intentionally. We have complained about it for years, but it doesn't look like Opera is going to change.
So, after installing Opera, you just have to go directly to bookmarks and delete everything before you do anything else (like enable Opera Link or import bookmarks from an adr file). Do not forget to do this.
So, after installing Opera, you just have to go directly to bookmarks and delete everything before you do anything else (like enable Opera Link or import bookmarks from an adr file). Do not forget to do this.
Since I don't use IE and Fx I never encountered the 'auto-import of bookmarks' issue.
Just want to point out that there is an appropriate option in opera:config. Basically it should prevent auto-import of bookmarks. In case of a fresh install the option is useless of course.
Just want to point out that there is an appropriate option in opera:config. Basically it should prevent auto-import of bookmarks. In case of a fresh install the option is useless of course.
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
You'll have to somehow set that before Opera runs for the first time. This means you'll have to manually set it in operaprefs_default.ini in the program files directory or manually create opreraprefs.ini in the preferences directory and set it there or set it in operaprefs_fixed.ini in the system32 directory. (See this page for more info.)
Originally posted by burnout426:
You'll have to somehow set that before Opera runs for the first time. This means you'll have to manually set it in operaprefs_default.ini in the program files directory or manually create opreraprefs.ini in the preferences directory and set it there or set it in operaprefs_fixed.ini in the system32 directory. (See this page for more info.)
Might be suitable for sys admins but definitive not a convenient solution for the average user
I myself prefer to wipe out the bookmarks after a fresh install before importing the new ones from an adr file.
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
Originally posted by Krake:
Might be suitable for sys admins but definitive not a convenient solution for the average user
Exactly.
Originally posted by Krake:
Since I don't use IE and Fx I never encountered the 'auto-import of bookmarks' issue.
Just want to point out that there is an appropriate option in opera:config. Basically it should prevent auto-import of bookmarks. In case of a fresh install the option is useless of course.
Will this option prevent bookmark import in a no-questions-asked upgrade - the use case that is most likely to trouble me in future...
Can't tell you for sure since I never made use of this option, just noticed its existence.
I'm afraid you will have to find out yourself by testing.
I'm afraid you will have to find out yourself by testing.
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
Only now I saw this [mis]behaviour by spawning a clean, portable install of 12 Beta to my second partition. A workaround that I found is to open operaprefs_default.ini in Opera's root dir and to explicitly set Disable Bookmark Import=1 under [User Prefs], but because Opera automatically runs by itself after a new installation, you may want to modify that file in the installer itself, but luckily it's not a compiled exe, but a SFX archive, so you can open it with 7Zip, WinRAR or whatever else you're using.
А crappy old PC running XP Pro SP3 and Opera 11.64 (1403) + 12.02 (1578) + 12.15 (1748) (plus a few other builds)
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13. September 2012, 15:51:51 (edited)
Originally posted by MaxGiga:
I'm uninstalling Opera as this is written.
What on earth for? It is done for your convenience. Just delete them if you don't want them. It also installs some bookmarks and speed dials from Opera's partners, which is how Opera makes its money to provide free software. Again, just delete them if you don't want them.
There are some options on the Installation dialogue — you might want to try them. I guess that the stand-alone USB installation might not import bookmarks, but I cannot say for sure as I don't have any Firefox bookmarks.
A USB installation is convenient, because it doesn't interfere with the Windows registry, and keeps all of your Opera configuration files in the installation folder, which can be in any convenient location, on a removable USB drive or, in my case, on an Encrypted Drive. That keeps all of your private data — email, contacts, bookmarks, browsing history, etc, secure from prying eyes, should your PC be stolen. Without the password to open the encrypted drive, no one can even launch Opera.
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