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Q: Safari keeps changing the preferences that I set

How do I stop Safari changing the preferences that I set. If I change home screen it changes to default, if I turn on view Favourites bar, it turns that off the next time Safari is opened.

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4)

Posted on Jul 27, 2015 3:32 AM

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  • by D.Cohen,

    D.Cohen D.Cohen Jul 27, 2015 3:44 AM in response to bootneck01
    Level 6 (8,424 points)
    Desktops
    Jul 27, 2015 3:44 AM in response to bootneck01

    Go to Safari menu (At the very top right side of your screen next to Apple icon), choose "Quit Safari"

    press "Shift" button and while holding this button on your keyboard single click on the Safari icon on your Dock.


    Open the Go menu with Option (Alt) key pressed - Library - locate Safari folder and move it to your desktop.


    Restart your computer.


    Also, you may try this:


    - Shut down your Mac

    - Wait until your computer turns off and after that press the Power button

    - Right after you hear the startup tone, press and hold the Shift key

    - Release the Shift key when you see a grey Apple sign and the progress bar below this sign

    - Once you see Desktop, start a Disk Utility scan to detect and repair file system errors (don't forget to choose your main hard drive)

    - Click on Verify Disk and then, if asked to fix problems, on Repair Disk

    - After this, click on Verify Disk Permissions and then on Repair Disk Permissions

    - After the process is finished, shut down your Mac and turn it back on after about 30 seconds


    Hope this helps!

  • by bootneck01,

    bootneck01 bootneck01 Jul 27, 2015 5:38 AM in response to D.Cohen
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    Jul 27, 2015 5:38 AM in response to D.Cohen

    Thanks for the help but unfortunately neither of the suggested options had any effect. Will now uninstall Safari and download and install a new copy.

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Jul 27, 2015 6:35 AM in response to bootneck01
    Level 9 (73,732 points)
    iTunes
    Jul 27, 2015 6:35 AM in response to bootneck01

    Do a backup.


    Quit the application.


    Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J.  When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder.  Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist.  Move the .plist to your desktop.

     

    Restart the computer, open the application and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.


    If the application is the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.


    Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.

  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Jul 27, 2015 7:42 AM in response to bootneck01
    Level 10 (208,037 points)
    Applications
    Jul 27, 2015 7:42 AM in response to bootneck01

    Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:

    ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist

    Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select  

              Services Show Info in Finder (or just Show Info)

    from the contextual menu.* An Info dialog should open.

    ☞ Does the dialog show "You can read and write" in the Sharing & Permissions section?

    ☞ In the General section, is the box labeled Locked checked?

    ☞ What is the Modified date?

    If you don't have read and write access to the item, change the settings as directed here. Note, however, that if one file has wrong access settings, most likely others do as well. If the item is locked, unlock it.

    *If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Open a TextEdit window and paste into it (command-V). Select the line you just pasted and continue as above.