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 | | From: | beartooth | | Subject: | How to import 7.54's bookmarks onto a new machine? | | Date: | Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:54:32 -0500 |
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 | I have a new machine, with the old one relegated to backup for it; I'm
running 7.54 under Fedora Core 1 on both, and intend to continue till 8.0
gets out of beta.
How do I get all my opera bookmarks copied off one and into the other?
I presume I ought to start by copying the old machine's Opera bookmarks
onto a floppy or CD; but how do I then import them into the new?
Bookmarks > Manage > File > Import gives me an option for Opera bookmarks;
but when I put a CD with those into the machine, check that it reads them,
and copy /mnt/cdrom into the box, nothing seems to happen ...
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Beartooth Autodidact
Venato ergo sum.
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| | From: | Steven V. Gunhouse | | Subject: | Re: How to import 7.54's bookmarks onto a new machine? | | Date: | Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:18:42 GMT |
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| On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:54:32 -0500, beartooth
wrote:
> I have a new machine, with the old one relegated to backup for it; I'm
> running 7.54 under Fedora Core 1 on both, and intend to continue till 8.0
> gets out of beta.
>
> How do I get all my opera bookmarks copied off one and into the other?
>
> I presume I ought to start by copying the old machine's Opera bookmarks
> onto a floppy or CD; but how do I then import them into the new?
>
> Bookmarks > Manage > File > Import gives me an option for Opera
> bookmarks;
> but when I put a CD with those into the machine, check that it reads
> them,
> and copy /mnt/cdrom into the box, nothing seems to happen ...
What's the file name? /mnt/cdrom/ is where the CD appears, but you need
the filename too. You can have names other than opera6.adr, so you need to
specify that it is opera6.adr.
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| | From: | beartooth | | Subject: | SOLVED : How to import 7.54's bookmarks onto a new machine? | | Date: | Thu, 20 Jan 2005 12:14:05 -0500 |
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| On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:18:42 +0000, Steven V. Gunhouse wrote:
>> Bookmarks > Manage > File > Import gives me an option for Opera
>> bookmarks;
>> but when I put a CD with those into the machine, check that it reads
>> them,
>> and copy /mnt/cdrom into the box, nothing seems to happen ...
>
> What's the file name? /mnt/cdrom/ is where the CD appears, but you need
> the filename too. You can have names other than opera6.adr, so you need to
> specify that it is opera6.adr.
It was called bookmarks.html -- and although the same file appeared to be
both on the CD and in /home/btth/.opera, I wasn't sure because the machine
wouldn't let me unmount and eject the CD. (I finally hit that with the big
hammer : logged out and back in, and ejected the CD before I did anything
else.)
Once I was sure FC1 wasn't just displaying something in one place that was
actually in another, I went to /home/btth/.opera and tried "file" on both
bookmarks.html and opera6.adr.
That reassured me, and then I tried "cat bookmarks.html | more"
Lo and behold! It started out by telling me it was a file of *Netscape*
bookmarks! God knows how I did that to it before I burned the CD; but
knowing that much, I went into Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks > File >
Import -- and this time instead of Import from Opera, I told it Import
from Netscape. *Then* it let me tell it bookmarks.html at last! And did it.
From there it was a simple matter in Manage Bookmarks to delete all the
boilerplate stuff, and just leave my own multi-year accumulation of
bookmarks, filed as I want them filed. (The way Opera handles filing
bookmarks has always been one of its greatest virtues for me.)
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RR 'Beartooth' Neuswanger
Venato ergo sum.
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