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Since Opera is, and has been for ages, my favorite browser I thought how I would be able to get my all my tweaks, settings and feeds-states over to a new installation. And this was not reinstalling Windows for the fiftieth time. It was from Windows to Linux (Ubuntu in my case). With coding and line-break differences and all those .ini files I expected it to be not very smooth (I noticed only later hat, once more, Opera encodes them in UTF-8 despite all that WINDOWS-1252 crap). To top all that the Windows version still is 9.50 Beta 2 but since Opera released 9.50 final today as a faithful Opera user I upgraded promptly. Now enough talking. Here is what I did ('\ 'escapes underscores in folder names for bash!):

1. Backup .opera in Linux
2. copy <path_to_windrive>Documents\ and\ Settings/<windows_user_name>/Application\ Data/Opera/Opera/* to .opera/. Mind you there can be a difference depending on whether you chose user profiles on install. I think didn’t. Yours might as well be located under <path_to_windrive>Documents\ and\ Settings/<windows_user_name>/Local\ Settings\ Application\ Data/Opera/Opera/*
3. search.ini somehow got messed up so I had to manually go through it. For example URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&go=Go was all well but the same for de.wikipedia.org had some strange UTF-8 character instead of the colon (:). Unfortunately that wasn’t it. So I thought of 9.50’s new feature “create search” and started from scratch.
4. went through settings for Windows paths such as download folder and programs tab plus opera6.ini (with an editor; most likely you will get even better results by using Opera’s interface at opera:config)

What I noticed so far:

• history search data base from beta 2
• address history
• .win (last open tabs) set-up
• read feeds/messages (all though not subscribed feeds unfortunately; the somehow went to “Unread” message folder)
• search.ini (as mentioned above) was somehow messed up
• saved passwords lasted
• preferences, i.e. settings, persisted (see above)
• automatic page reload settings