I can't delete my Safari Bookmarks permanently, Please help

You're messing around with something you're unfamiliar with, and inviting trouble. *Do not* unistall and reinstall things unless you understand the consequences. There's nothing wrong with Safari.

The problem is that you haven't even bothered to read the built-in Help for Safari, nor look at your preferences for it. If you open Preferences>Bookmarks and uncheck the box where it says "Include bookmarks bar", then restart Safari, that should solve your problem.

If your Bookmarks Bar is still present after doing what I said, then your preferences file is either locked or corrupt.

So, quit Safari, go to Users/your user name/Library/Preferences and delete the com.apple.Safari.plist file. Restart Safari and setup your preferrences again and that should solve the problem.

You seem to be changing what you say you want. First you said you wanted to get rid of the Bookmarks Bar, and now you're saying you want to get rid of all your Bookmarks. Which goal are you trying to reach?

If you want to get rid of all your Bookmarks, quit Safari and go to ~/Library/Safari and delete the Bookmarks.plist file. But when you restart Safari, a default set of bookmarks are automatically created, which you can delete. But I don't see why you would want to do this, since you would never be able to go back to any site you visited previously.

First you said you wanted to get rid of the Bookmarks Bar, and now you're saying you want to get rid of all your Bookmarks.

That explains my previous statement. You can Command-Drag any bookmark item off the Bookmark Bar and it will disappear and not come back. If you're saying that yours are coming back, then something else is going on, since we already deleted and recreated the preferences file.

If you Get Info on the bookmarks.plist file, look at the permissions
and sharing, what does that indicate?

Dave

When you try to delete the file, have you exited Safari?

Dave

In the get Info window, try unlocking the file before you delete it.

(Your system details seem to keep changing between Windows XP
and MacOS 10.5.7 -- which is it?)

Dave

You need to quit Safari before doing anything with the file.
Can you quit Safari, unlock the file and drag it to your Desktop?

Dave