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Safari has some default bookmarks that it apparently imported from Firefox on January 1st 4001....
Keep doesn't work, don't keep doesn't work, delete doesn't work and edit doesn't work.
In short, I need to remove the bookmark file to be done with it, but I have no clue where it is located.
Does anyone know where it is stored?
MacBook Pro with Touch Bar
I didn't import firefox bookmarks in Safari, so it probably pulled data from somewhere.
Safari shows me these two unresponsive buttons:
Safari even says it imported data:
what is possible is that Safari iOS imported it; I tried to disable the Safari checkbox on iCloud, but nothing so far.
These buttons here do not do anything either when I click; they don't even close the dialog.
Since the date is year 4001, the data is either invalid, or it has bad permissions.
The Safari bookmarks file is kept in /Users/yourname/Library/Safari/Booklist.plist. If you are using Time Machine, you can restore this file from a time prior to when you attempted to incorporate the Firefox bookmarks.
That's interesting:
I deleted the Bookmarks.plist and also TopSites.plist.
Once I restart Safari, the same icons are coming back as 'imported from Firefox', while I don't have any of the default bookmarks in Firefox.
I'm not sure where it's pulling data from, but these bookmarks are back!
Is there any other place I can look at? or a way to disable the Firefox bookmarks sync? (Firefox is my default browser)
ThomasD3 wrote:
Is there any other place I can look at? or a way to disable the Firefox bookmarks sync? (Firefox is my default browser)
FWIW, Firefox sync only syncs Firefox browsers. It would have nothing to do with FIrefox bookmarks you imported into Safari.
It is a vicious cycle. Safari on the Mac may have synchronized its bookmarks with Safari on your iPhone, and when you removed the macOS Safari Bookmarks.plist, iCloud noticed it was missing, and synchronized Bookmarks.plist back from your iPhone. Since I never import Firefox bookmarks into Safari, I have no experience sorting this out.
I didn't import the bookmarks at all. I see other posts on the web with people having the same message. Somehow, it auto imported bookmarks on the first use.
I tried this:
rm -Rf ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari; \
rm -Rf ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari; \
rm -Rf ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.WebKit.PluginProcess; \
rm -Rf ~/Library/Cookies/Cookies.binarycookies; \
rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/Apple\ -\ Safari\ -\ Safari\ Extensions\ Gallery; \
rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.LSSharedFileList.plist; \
rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.RSS.plist; \
rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist; \
rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.WebFoundation.plist; \
rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.WebKit.PluginHost.plist; \
rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.WebKit.PluginProcess.plist; \
rm -Rf ~/Library/PubSub/Database; \
rm -Rf ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.apple.Safari.savedState
didn't solve the problem...
there is also nothing of interest in the keychain.
I will wipe all settings again, and try to start it offline to see if it has the bookmarks.
otherwise, I may have to scan every file for the bookmark names...
I'm tracing the files in use with
opensnoop -n Safari
and I find that when I access these bookmark, it goes to the keychain... so the answer may be there.
where is the file with the safari bookmarks?