Backing up Opera
It is recommended that you regularly back up your most important Opera files. You should also always back up your files before upgrading.
The tips below are also useful if you need to move your Opera files from one computer to another.
Locating your files
From the menus, choose Help > About Opera, or go to opera:about to find the exact paths for your profile and data folders.
Selecting files
Not all files and folders listed below will be relevant for all users. If you have made no changes to the keyboard, mouse, toolbar, or menu setups, for example, there is no reason to make copies.
| Description | File name |
|---|---|
| Blocked content | urlfilter.ini |
| Bookmarks | bookmarks.adr |
| Certificate authorities | opcacrt6.dat |
| Contacts | contacts.adr |
| General settings | operaprefs.ini |
| Notes | notes.adr |
| Personal certificates | opcert6.dat |
| Searches | search.ini |
| Site-specific settings | override.ini |
| Speed Dial | speeddial.ini |
| Password Manager data | wand.dat |
| Description | Folder name |
|---|---|
| Email, newsgroups, chat, and feeds | |
| Sessions - saved window setups | \sessions |
| Skins | \skin |
| Keyboard setups | \keyboard |
| Mouse setups | \mouse |
| Menu setups | \menu |
| Toolbar setups | \toolbar |
From the help of Opera for computers 12.10, archived on September 18, 2012. See the original page.
Opera for computers
- ActiveX and VBScript support in Opera
- Advertising Preferences
- Auto-update
- Automatic redirection
- Backing up Opera
- BitTorrent
- Bookmarks
- Browser identity
- Browser layout map
- Browsing
- Cache
- Camera settings
- Chat
- Content
- Content blocking
- Cookies
- Custom toolbars
- Delete private data
- Developer tools
- Dialogs
- Display modes
- Do not track
- Download and install Opera
- Downloads
- Dragonfly
- Email and news
- Error console
- Error page
- Exit actions
- Extensions
- Feeds
- File Types
- Fit to width
- Fonts
- Forms
- Fraud and Malware Protection
- Full screen mode
- General preferences
- Geolocation
- Glossary
- History
- Home page
- Images
- Import or export data
- Java
- JavaScript
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Kiosk mode
- Language
- Languages
- Main Menu
- Menus
- Mouse gestures
- Multimedia
- Network
- Notes
- Notifications
- Older versions of Opera
- Opera Link
- Opera Next
- Opera Turbo
- Opera Unite
- Opera Widgets
- Page icons
- Page loading
- Page style
- Panels
- Personal Information
- Plug-ins
- Pop-ups
- Preferences
- Privacy
- Private browsing
- Programs and paths
- Referrer information
- Report a site problem
- Save data for online forms
- Save passwords
- Save sets of tabs
- Scrolling
- Searching in Opera
- Security
- Security certificates
- Security protocols
- Server settings
- Set Opera as the default browser
- Share menu
- Shortcuts
- Show page size
- Site preferences
- Skins
- Sound
- Sounds
- Source Viewer
- Speed Dial
- Spell checker
- Start and exit
- Start up tabs
- Storage
- Style modes
- Tabs
- Themes
- Toolbars
- Tooltips
- Trusted website list
- Use other programs for certain actions
- Using M2
- Using the Hotlist
- Using the mouse
- Using voice
- Voice preferences
- Webpage preferences
- Welcome to Opera
- When Opera crashes
- Windows
- Work offline
- Zoom