No Import Email from Opera anymore
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The "Import Email from Opera" function is disabled in the current snapshot version and the latest 3 or 4 snapshot versions. The last working version (as far as is remember) was around 2482.13 ?!?
Am I the only one? Did I do something wrong?
This is a screenshot of the import menu:
The E-Mail checkbox is disabled! So I cannot activate it.
Any ideas, what to do? Is there any plan, when the import function will work again?
Thanks a lot! -
@luteva confirmed. Do you want to write a bugreport?
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ok i will do that.
thx! -
@luteva Hi, I have managed to reproduce this bug and will start working on a fix right now. Please go a ahead and report all the same if you would be so kind.
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Hi @ltgorm ! Thank you very much! I just created the bugreport. Its reference is: VB-84729
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I was just trying to import mail from a backup of my old Opera installation, but it already fails before I even specify the path, as the attached screenshot shows (sorry, German, but the issue should be obvious):
The option to import e-mail is simply greyed out and not clickable.If I do specify the path to
.opera/profile
(*), I get fails on all counts except notes, but my notes were almost non-existent and trivial. What I really wanted was my contacts and my e-mail.I'm using Vivaldi 5.0.2497.32 on Linux (Manjaro, KDE), in case that's relevant, and I have not configured any e-mail accounts on Vivaldi yet, since I was hoping that they would be imported along with my e-mail archive.
(*) the how-to does not specify whether
.opera
or.opera/profile
is needed, but I figured that much out from the forum -- would be nice if someone added that information! -
reported as VB-84729 here https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/69069/no-e-mailimport-anymore/5
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Thanks for the clue, I had not found this before.
However, searching the forum for the bug number finds this post which says that VB-84729 was fixed on 15th of December, with release of V 5.0.2497.30 – and I'm already on V 5.0.2497.32. Could it be that the bug wasn't fixed for all cases?
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Huh. I'm on Win11 and mail import is also unselectable for me. Maybe a regression? I have added a comment in the latest snapshot release thread mentioning the QA, see https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/70044/minor-update-3-for-vivaldi-desktop-browser-5-0/20?_=1641214887527
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@ZakMcKracken I have reported the regression as VB-85688
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Just in case someone is coming across this problem, there is an easy workaround to get M2 import working. The default path for Opera 12.x on Windows is in
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Opera\Opera
Vivaldi finds the email accounts if you point it to the actual location
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Opera\Opera
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We had a fix for this on 18th March. Now there are two entries in the selection box: one for the standard opera install and another one for the standalone install. Can you verify if you can use the standalone option and select the corrrect folder and then you should be able to select the E-Mail box.
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I have a standalone version of Opera 12 installed on Linux (not in any type of default path). When I open the Import menu, for Opera 12.x, I can check or uncheck every option other than Mail.
I can only check or uncheck the Mail option after I have selected my profile path (after the list of checkboxes for my mail accounts from my Opera profile is populated in the import menu).
I guess from an end-user standpoint, it seems a little confusing that there is an unclickable Mail option until after the profile is selected, while the other options (bookmarks and notes) are clickable.
Maybe it would make sense if all the options had a 'none found' notification until after the profile is selected. And then once there is a profile path, then the options would become selectable.
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Aha, I see, that is a good point. This is not very user-friendly. Would it maybe make sense to automatically open the folder selection dialog if you select mail and no profile is default or selected already?
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@ltgorm said in Why is mail import from Opera deactivated for me?:
Aha, I see, that is a good point. This is not very user-friendly. Would it maybe make sense to automatically open the folder selection dialog if you select mail and no profile is default or selected already?
I think that would also make sense. If the user gets some feedback to clicking the mail checkbox it would help. Otherwise it seems like something is not working.