Where on the drive are Safari tab groups stored?

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Where on the drive are Safari tab groups stored?

Today I couldn't solve a problem at first and thought I'd have to reset Safari (15.1). I presume that that would erase my Tab Groups but typically the Apple Support articles don't address that specifically. So I wanted to back up my Tab Groups prior to resetting, but of course no Apple article bothers to tell you where they're located on the drive. I can't find them in ~/Library/Safari, they're not in CloudTabs.db or Bookmarks.plist. Where are they?

Posted on Nov 7, 2021 1:46 PM

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Michael Bluejay Author

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Nov 8, 2021 8:30 PM in response to Barney-15E

Thank you. Since you didn't bother to mention where this difficult-to-find-file is, for others who might be reading, it's at:

~/Library/Containers/Safari/Data/Library/Safari/SafariTabs.db

I also have to point out that it's ridiculous that Apple doesn't keep this file with the other Safari data, in ~/Library/Safari

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Barney-15E

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Nov 8, 2021 6:34 PM in response to Michael Bluejay

CloudTabs.db doesn't appear to be the data store, but maybe what has been synced to the cloud.

There is a SafariTabs.db in the Safari Container. It appears to be the data store. The test group I created is in that database.

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Where on the drive are Safari tab groups stored?

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