Multiple profiles in Opera
Dario Cro
profile make of Phil Burns and it is excellent tool for Opera! I think that
you should put it together with Opera or integrate (merge) with Opera
itself!
But, here is my question. I assume (obviously because there is such program
as profile maker) that Opera can't create itself new profiles.
I want to know, is it possible somehow to have
_multi_profiles_in_Windows_NT/2000 ? What I mean is that every new user can
have his personal folder with all files, something like when you use Phil
Burns Profile Maker.
I belive that Opera does not have that kind option, but if have, please, let
somebody tell me.
I manage to make something like that and it is functioning perfectly! I get
idea when I saw Phil Burns Profile Maker and that Opera can use another INI
file when you put in shotrcut [Target : "C:\Program
Files\Opera502\Opera.exe" "somepath\Opera.ini"].
First, I created Shortcut with [Target : "C:\Program
Files\Opera501\Opera.exe" "%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\Opera\Opera.ini"] and
put it in Desktop for "All Users". So, all users have shortcut to Opera with
pointing in Home directory. Second, I create new Opera.ini with little
modified settings, and copyed it in "My Documents\Opera" for "Default User",
so every new user will get the same default settings! I set that every user
have his own bookmarks, mail, addresses etc... and common cache in
"Temp\OperaCache" and buttons... You can combine in many ways. So, with
that, every user on NT have his own protected folder. Cool, isn't it? I want
to know is it possible to create that without that? Or will it be in next
version?? Or can Phil Burns improve his Profile Maker so that all users on
NT systems can have own folders.
Thank you.
P.S. Does anyone have problems with Win 2000 + Opera 5.02 like I have
described in past posts ( [ Newsgroup: opera.general # Subject: 3 serious
bugs that crashes Opera 5.02 # Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 ] )?
With regards from bigest Opera fan :).
Dario Cro
Bill van Melle
> Files\Opera501\Opera.exe" "%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\Opera\Opera.ini"] and
> put it in Desktop for "All Users". So, all users have shortcut to Opera with
> pointing in Home directory. Second, I create new Opera.ini with little
> modified settings, and copyed it in "My Documents\Opera" for "Default User",
> so every new user will get the same default settings! I set that every user
> have his own bookmarks, mail, addresses etc... and common cache in
> "Temp\OperaCache" and buttons...
At least in Windows 2000, I think the appropriate path would be
%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Opera\... The "My Documents" directory seems
like a place for a user to store files created from wherever (which is why
there's a shortcut to it in every Save menu), while "Application Data" has
various initialization files and such.
I think you'd also want to fix the file associations in the registry, so that
double-clicking on an HTML (etc.) file also starts up Opera (if it isn't
already running) under the correct profile.
But yes, I agree that Opera ought to be doing this itself. I believe Mozilla
does it (though sadly, Netscape 4 doesn't), and, of course, IE does. Doesn't
seem like it could be too hard to have this built into Opera, and it would
sure save users much grief on shared machines.
--Bill
Dario Cro
|"Phil Burns" wrote:
| > What, nobody interested?
|
| I found your post very interesting thanks, just didn't have anything to
| say :) I'm afraid I don't have a lot of free time at the moment to add
| your suggestions to the Opera Profile Maker.
|
| Phil
Dario Cro
people don't know what is "Application Data" folder :).
Sure, Opera is my default browser for a long time... ;-).
I am glad that you agree that Opera should do that itself :).
Tnx for answering.