Okay a new problem:
I have a new laptop. This is not the problem.
I installed Opera 11 (whatever their latest one is) on this new laptop as WELL as my old one. I saved my bookmarks from the old one and want to IMPORT them into the new one.
Old computer had XP. New one has W7. I don't know if that makes a difference but while I'm in OPERA (on the new laptop) and I click MANAGE BOOKMARKS, I find the IMPORT OPERA bookmarks section and I click it. It takes me to the dialogue box to find the file on my computer. I've saved it on my desktop. I can SEE it on the desktop (the file that is). Yet the dialogue box only asks to see files with the ending of: *.adr and won't give me the option to look for ALL FILES. Thus, it's NOT showing up in the dialogue (search my desktop) box.
I'm assuming since I EXPORTED minutes earlier from the same version of Opera and want to IMPORT to the same version (diff. computer.), it would have SAVED the file as an: .adr file.
Maybe it's not recognizing it on the new computer because it was saved as an HTML file. BUT...how come the import dialogue box won't let me import any other type of file other than: .adr?
Can I just drop and drag it or copy and paste it somehow into the OPERA program file?
I'll try to go back to the old laptop and resave them (export again) and make SURE it's an .adr file....but I'm pretty sure it was to begin with.
I've also wanted to import my FIREFOX bookmarks into the opera...so I click IMPORT those and those were saved as HTML and apparently the dialogue box knows this and actually FINDS the FIREFOX bookmarks. But when I hit IMPORT and it imports...it just imported a FOLDER. When I doubleclick the FIREFOX BOOKMARKS folder, nothing is in it.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong.