[OU] Opera 9.6

[Webgenie]

How about doing a System Restore?  Then maybe you can save settings before upgrading again.

Webgenie

On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:56:02 -0800, Peter Ellis <peter.ellis at croatiapropertyservices.com> wrote:

> Hi David
>
> Thanks for responding. I'm using XP Pro although I suspect it will be
> the last MS operating system I buy.
>
> I've never consciously saved tabs, but whenever I close Opera and
> whenever I upgraded, I always got an opening screen that had something
> about resume as the default, so I always got everything back. I always
> have dozens of tabs open for sites I use regularly. I've not dared to
> use it since yesterday, in case touching it compromises getting
> everything back. Had a look on manage sessions, but it is empty :-(
>
> Another machine asked me if I wanted to upgrade but I cancelled it. I
> can't take chances with this sort of thing! Without the bookmarks, I
> can't recover the tabs. They acted as an aide memoire and it will take
> weeks to remember them all, as there was no other record for most of  
> them.
>
> I'm wondering whether the default had changed on the opening screen and,
> not noticing, I clicked on Yes, as I always do. That would account for
> the tabs, but not for the bookmarks all going.
>
> Cheers
>
> Peter
>
> Ledgem wrote:
>> If you happen to be using OS X with a Time Machine volume then it's as  
>> simple as restoring one file for the tabs and another file for the  
>> bookmarks. Even if you're not on OS X but you've been backing up your  
>> Opera installs then you should be able to do something similar. If  
>> you're not sure which files to restore, tell us which operating system  
>> you're running Opera from and we might be able to direct you.
>>
>> If you don't have any backups, then I'm not sure that there's any way  
>> to recover your bookmarks. There's one last bit of hope for your tabs,  
>> though. If you ever used the "save sessions" feature you can recover  
>> your tabs by going to File > Sessions > Manage Sessions (any saved  
>> sessions should also appear on that menu, if I remember correctly;  
>> clicking on a session will recover it). Unfortunately sessions are not  
>> auto-saved, and this will only recover a session as of the time that  
>> you manually saved it.
>>
>> I know how frustrating it is to lose all your open tabs (luckily it's a  
>> twice-a-year event for me, if that). I don't know why upgrading to the  
>> new version wiped your things... very strange.
>>
>> David
>>
>> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:00:25 -0500, Peter Ellis  
>> <peter.ellis at croatiapropertyservices.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I have been using Opera for many years. I just upgraded to 9.6. When it
>>> rebooted I was alarmed to see that all my tabs had disappeared and,  
>>> even
>>> worse, so had all my bookmarks. On previous upgrades all the tabs
>>> remained in place. Bookmarks going back ten years are also normally
>>> there, too. If I'd had any doubr that they wouldn't I'd have backed  
>>> them
>>> up. Can anyone please advise me as to how I recover them?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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