# What happened to my Opera bookmarks?!?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-my-opera-bookmarks/132180>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 14, 2002, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-my-opera-bookmarks/132180 "2002-10-14T03:05:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-my-opera-bookmarks/132180/1 "2002-10-14T03:05:32Z")

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I just turned on Opera (WinXP) and **all** of my bookmarks are gone!

What the hell? Nothing wierd happened. I don’t think I installed anything since the last time I used it. How could this happen? How can I get them back?! I had well over 100 sites saved and it will be a huge burden to try to find them all again.

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**Author:** ![Bob\_Scene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Bob\_Scene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Scene)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-my-opera-bookmarks/132180/2 "2002-10-14T07:54:28Z")

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Do you still have a file called opera6.adr? That’s where the bookmarks are stored. I also have one on my drive called opera6.adr.bak, which should be a backup for it. If you’ve got those, they’re at least restorable. The Opera help people will help you if you can’t tell how to restore them.

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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-my-opera-bookmarks/132180/3 "2002-10-14T08:07:52Z")

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I have noticed that if you fail to shut down properly Opera sometimes loses your bookmarks file and customised settings and resets to a default state. I quickly learned to take backups of **opera6.adr** and **opera6.ini** - unfortunately, I don’t know of any other solutions beyond the backup file **Bob Scene** mentioned.

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**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-my-opera-bookmarks/132180/4 "2002-10-14T15:19:34Z")

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Or opera5.adr. Even though I use Opera version 6 now, it still keeps the current bookmarks in opera5.adr.

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**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-my-opera-bookmarks/132180/5 "2002-10-14T16:28:00Z")

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Yes, I have that file.

But it seems to be much smaller then before…

_weeps silently_