Can you use Time Machine to find Web sites?

Hello Marcia:

I thought about your question for awhile (intriguing).

Anyway, something you might try.

Go to your home folder ~library>safari. Highlight the history plist. Restore it from a TM backup that predates your visit. For good measure (although I do no know what it does, I would restore a file called historyindex.sk.

That may or may not work, but it is worth a shot.

As always, be sure you have a backup before you do anything that is software-related.

Barry

I don't understand what you want to find in time machine. if the site is blocked you can't get to it. the best you can find in time machine is safari history which will only give you the web site address. you have that already. time machine does not back up safari caches (or any caches) so if you were hoping to get access to cached web pages from that site TM can not help you with that.

To find a prior version of a web page try the The Wayback Internet Archive.

http://www.archive.org/index.php

Allows you to search by URL for past versions of web pages