Opera Backup

Opera Launcher was released yesterday by Tamil over at the Opera website. The software program is a launcher for Opera with additional options that could make it useful for many Opera users. The main use of the launcher is to create an Opera backup. It can backup Opera bookmarks, notes and sessions with data stamp.

Both the bookmarks and notes will be backed up in the Opera profile directory in the newly created backups directory. Windows users find the Opera profile folder in the hidden Application Data folder of their user profile.

Opera launcher has a few additional options that can be checked. It can disable the crash startup dialog and delete the quick find search history. The small tool has to be placed inside the main Opera directory. The easiest way to work with the program is to create a shortcut to the launcher and place it in the start menu or or on the computer desktop.

Previously created backups can be recovered by moving one of the backups into the main profile directory and renaming it to opera6.adr or notes.adr depending on the file.

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Author: Martin Brinkmann, Monday November 24, 2008 -
Tags:Opera, opera backup, opera browser, opera launcher, opera-tips, web browser

Responses so far:

1. Rarst says:

   November 24, 2008 at 2:19 pm

   Bookmarks and notes can be easily saved “into cloud” with Opera Link. Safer than backing up to same directory as well. :)

   Tool probably serves some specific purpose for its developer but I don’t really see it as useful.

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2. MK says:

   November 25, 2008 at 4:25 am

   There’s a similar program called Opera Fly, and it can be used to backup almost everything in Opera, including Mail. But it doesn’t get updated anymore, and doesn’t work since Opera 9.5.

   I used to backup my profiles manually before (in %appdata%/Opera/Opera/profile). This tool from Tamil could be handy.

   Opera Link is nice, but sometimes it messed up when I tried to sync it with multiple computers.

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