What is Opera's History Path?

systemErr · 05-03-2009, 12:31 AM

I am trying to create a program that will clear out the history files, but I need the path.

Ilizane · 05-03-2009, 05:18 AM

In Opera 9 on WinXP, it defaults to Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile\global.dat in the user's home directory. It's configurable in opera:config and opera6.ini so your code may need to check opera:config (there's no entry in opera6.ini unless it's been change from the default).

There's a separate file for typed URLs, Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile\typed_history.xml - you'll need to empty that too if your program is a privacy utility.

**dm01** · 05-18-2009, 06:52 PM

Tools -> Delete Private Data will do this for you.

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systemErr Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 62 OS: Win XP Home SP2	What is Opera's History Path? I am trying to create a program that will clear out the history files, but I need the path.

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Ilizane Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 5 OS: WinXP Home SP2	Re: What is Opera's History Path? In Opera 9 on WinXP, it defaults to Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile\global.dat in the user's home directory. It's configurable in opera:config and opera6.ini so your code may need to check opera:config (there's no entry in opera6.ini unless it's been change from the default). There's a separate file for typed URLs, Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile\typed_history.xml - you'll need to empty that too if your program is a privacy utility.

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