I am getting this message when I try to open Opera:
Opera
Can't open user profile directory, because you lack sufficient privileges. You might want to contact the administrator of this machine.
OK
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I am the Admin on my PC and current User name is also on Admin group.
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Had 1st power failure few days ago while active on PC, & after restart Opera worked fine.
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Then did the recent Opera security update and/ or update to latest Opera and this time the PC was idle and opera had bunch of tabs open, when the 2nd power failure happened.
Solution pathways: ??
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Is there a within Opera fix for this? OR Does it have to be a Windows level fix?
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Would downloading a full Setup of latest Opera and installing on top (maybe as Admin) work to fix this issue?
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Should I do something like a "Take Ownership" on certain folders/ folder tree via Windows Explorer or similar?
Please let me know how to ENSURE I get access to this without losing my profile info. Thanks.
Additional info:
Since, this showed up I figured I should do a typical system check that I do using Image-Health which includes DISM & SFC command via an easy to run Menu system.
DISM ran fine, but SFC stopped at 23% and created at report (most of its lots of Hex/ Binary style info that doesnt share any file/ folder names of issue).
Now, for those saying SFC is not significant, let me repeat – All said checks, that I've used many times have worked fine before.
So, I believe this Opera & SFC both facing permissions issues is kind of connected.
The only other addition was installation of Windows 8.1 Security Rollup before these 2 power failures.
Permissions Screenshots combined: PS: At first this was concerning, but then the Read Only attrib is there on the AppData folders of all Applications, so I figure that may be the norm?
Best Answer
Opera Browser stores browser data in two folder in Windows::
"C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Opera Software"
(only for cache)"C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software"
(for all browser/user data and preferences)Backup bookmarks and you may delete/rename that folders (
rd /s /q
command) to solve your issue if you have not any valuable data in your Opera browser. Here are the path of that files to be backed up::"C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Bookmarks"
"C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Preferences"
tl;dr; delete two folders and run Opera.
Download Opera offline installer:: https://get.geo.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/