Editing search.ini in Mac Opera?

Anyone know how to do it?

[Brad]

I tried the proceedures outlined via a link in Brett's site used for Win and Linux versions. Tried that with the Mac ver. 6 and it does not seem to have made any difference.

I am still fairly new on the Mac but it seems like if I edited and saved the search.ini file the changes should show up.

Anyone know how to do this? I just want to add some different search engines.

[Macguru]

Hi Brad,

What text editor did you use to edit it? Can you please point us to Brett's thread? Do you have many versions of Opera on your Mac?

[Brad]

>>What text editor did you use to edit it?

TextEdit in OS X

>>Can you please point us to Brett's thread?

From Brett's Opera site:
[searchengineworld.com...]
Question: What are the search.ini settings in Opera 6.01? See the link.

>>Do you have many versions of Opera on your Mac?

Hehe. Yeah I had two beta versions on the Mac when I was doing this. I just trashed them because I thought it might help. Rebooted too.

I have done this before in Windows and it worked like a charm, so I am keen to add some SE's to the Mac version if I can.

[Macguru]

Drats!

Sorry I am home right now and my OS X Macs are at my office. Because of Holidays I wont get there before a while before I can play with this.

I hope Santa will help you with this before me. ;)

[bodine]

I thought you were right, too, Brad, and I tried the same thing you did-- no go. But, I have found their little secret. HO! HO! HO!

If you Control click on the application Opera, you will see a contextual menu that will allow you to "Show Package Contents." Click that. Go to Contents/Resorces/en.lproj/. In there, there is THE "search.ini" file you need to modify. TextEdit should work, but you could also use BBEdit, my fav.

Give it a try, and let us know if it works...

(Thanks for giving me something to do. I was bored.)

added: There is also a "search.ini" file in Contents/MacOS/. I don't know what it is for...for Classic, maybe?

[Brad]

bodine you are a genius! :)

It worked. I could edit it with TextEdit. It all worked like a charm. I never would have found it hidden there. They used a decoy on us.

I replaced the provided Ebay and SearchBoss (SearchBoss?) searches, which I'll never use, with AltaVista and Hotbot which gives me coverage of just about everything. I really like having the ability to search right from a form on the browser and to be able to choose.

Thank you very much for helping me out!