Moving the preferences file
Alan Montgomery
I have moved all my preferences to another drive except operaprefs.ini I
can't find any way to tell Opera to use the moved file instead of the old
one.
My system is Windows Vista and Windows 7. One of the things I want to do
is access a single Opera profile from the two OSes.
Regards
Alan
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Rijk van Geijtenbeek
<al...@none.invalid>:
> Hi,
> I have moved all my preferences to another drive except
> operaprefs.ini I can't find any way to tell Opera to use the moved file
> instead of the old one.
>
> My system is Windows Vista and Windows 7. One of the things I want to do
> is access a single Opera profile from the two OSes.
>
> Regards
> Alan
Should work if you start with a command line parameter:
"C:\path-to\opera.exe" /settings "C:\path-to\operaprefs.ini"
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Alan Montgomery
<ri...@opera.removethiz.com> wrote:
> Op Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:40:28 +0100 schreef Alan Montgomery
> <al...@none.invalid>:
>
>> Hi,
>> I have moved all my preferences to another drive except
>> operaprefs.ini I can't find any way to tell Opera to use the moved file
>> instead of the old one.
>>
>> My system is Windows Vista and Windows 7. One of the things I want to
>> do is access a single Opera profile from the two OSes.
>>
>> Regards
>> Alan
>
> Should work if you start with a command line parameter:
>
> "C:\path-to\opera.exe" /settings "C:\path-to\operaprefs.ini"
>
This would work for starting Opera from a user specific short cut.
It isn't suitable for opening from double clicking on an html file.
In a multi user environment the first would require removing all the "all
users" shortcuts, and replacing them with user specific shortcuts for each
user.
Dapxin
On Nov 6, 10:59 pm, "Rijk van Geijtenbeek" <r...@opera.removethiz.com>
wrote:
> Op Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:40:28 +0100 schreef Alan Montgomery
> <a...@none.invalid>:
Rijk van Geijtenbeek
> Can't we just an option in opera:config ? like the rest? ;-)_
opera:config is an interface for editing operaprefs.ini. You can already
store the location of the settings folder in operaprefs.ini, but Opera
still has to know where to find this operaprefs.ini... hence the command
line option. If that's not enough, you could also edit the command lines
stored in the Windows Registry, but that's probably not something you want
to do.
An easier option would be to install Opera directly in the shared
location, not just the profile folder. Then set multi-user to '0' in
operaprefs_default.ini.
> On Nov 6, 10:59 pm, "Rijk van Geijtenbeek" wrote:
>> Op Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:40:28 +0100 schreef Alan Montgomery:
>>
>>> I have moved all my preferences to another drive except
>>> operaprefs.ini I can't find any way to tell Opera to use the moved
>>> file instead of the old one.
>>
>>> My system is Windows Vista and Windows 7. One of the things I want to
>>> do is access a single Opera profile from the two OSes.
>>
Alan Montgomery
<ri...@opera.removethiz.com> wrote:
> Op Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:51:05 +0100 schreef Dapxin <dap...@gmail.com>:
>
>> Can't we just an option in opera:config ? like the rest? ;-)_
>
> opera:config is an interface for editing operaprefs.ini. You can already
> store the location of the settings folder in operaprefs.ini, but Opera
> still has to know where to find this operaprefs.ini... hence the command
> line option. If that's not enough, you could also edit the command lines
> stored in the Windows Registry, but that's probably not something you
> want to do.
>
> An easier option would be to install Opera directly in the shared
> location, not just the profile folder. Then set multi-user to '0' in
> operaprefs_default.ini.
>
Which doesn't work if you want it for multiple users, or if you want to
have a single store in a dual boot system.
What it needs is a way of specifying the location in the system fixed
file, which includes substituting the user name - e.g.
UserProfileFile="D:\Data\Opera\{user}\operaprefs.ini"
>> On Nov 6, 10:59 pm, "Rijk van Geijtenbeek" wrote:
>>> Op Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:40:28 +0100 schreef Alan Montgomery:
>>>
>>>> I have moved all my preferences to another drive except
>>>> operaprefs.ini I can't find any way to tell Opera to use the moved
>>>> file instead of the old one.
>>>
>>>> My system is Windows Vista and Windows 7. One of the things I want to
>>>> do is access a single Opera profile from the two OSes.
>>>
>>> Should work if you start with a command line parameter:
>>>
>>> "C:\path-to\opera.exe" /settings "C:\path-to\operaprefs.ini"
>
>
>
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