i was rooting through Opera's AppData folder trying to find where the various "Trashes" resided (more on this later), when i ran across a few things i have questions about:
1) Every favicon Opera* encounters (whether the site is bookmarked or not) is saved in the directory (under Vista):
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Opera\Opera\profile\images
(or the equivalent directories on previous Windows versions). If fact, for every username.livejournal.com or title.blogger.com site, you visit, the same favicon is downloaded again. While size isn't necessarily an issue (currently this folder is 10.6MB on my system, which is fine for my hard drive size), the files have names like 162eri.deviantart.com.idx and http%3A%2F%2Fbrasslantern.org%2Ffavicon.ico, so this directory becomes another browsing history. This file is not cleaned up with a typical CC Opera cleanup.
If you're paranoid or have reason to be, it's probably best not to let Opera download favicons at all. i'm just cautious, and depending on the type of sites you visit favicons can be ... well, not something you want snoopy people to see. My question is simple: is it safe to add this directory to the includes, or at very least include every ICO, IDX, or image file in this directory? i can't think of any reason it wouldn't be, but i don't want Opera to crash because it's looking for something i deleted.
* Currently using v9.52, but this true of earlier versions as well.
2) Using Opera 9.52, in the directory:
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Opera\Opera\profile\vps
there are a number of four digit numbered directories. In each of these is a file named md.dat. i opened one of these in Notepad and dispersed among all the machine language goobledygook were URLs of sites that i've visited. i ran CC but these files remained unchanged. These aren't sites that require logins, and individual Wikipedia entries should require cookies (i don't delete my Opera cookies since there's no way to exclude the login cookies). So again, this comprises another browsing history.
a. Does anyone know what these files are?
b. Is there a safe way to clean these files? With all the machine language in them, i don't have much confidence that they can just be deleted.
3) Back to the trash: within Opera are a lot of "Trash" folders, for when you delete a bookmark or something. There's one for bookmarks, one for notes, one for feeds, one for "Widgets," and probably one for mail (i don't use Opera's mail client). Is there a way to get CC to empty these? i always forget that they're there and that i need to empty them. i never did figure out where they're stored on the hard drive.