*Unable to open safari at all*

I was able to find Safari download facility(pkg file, if I am not wrong) for previous MacOS versions. So similarly when such version is available for Ventura, will reinstalling that Safari solve my issue by any chance??

That is actually time-consuming, but possibly a choice for rectifying my issue. Since I have exams, I wont be having time to do it. I also have to take backup, as I said before It will be done by next week.

I will get back to you after my backup with the time machine. Meanwhile, I will also try to use the Shared folder, as you have suggested after taking backup.

John Galt wrote:

Until I can determine and provide suggestions for more targeted areas to examine...

Please let me those suggestions in this forum. I will get back to you as soon as my backup is done. I have to get this done !

Thanks a lot so far

I installed Seagate just yesterday, but anyway I will uninstall it.

So seems like drag and dropping entire Library files to desktop causes some issues. Since I have backup, will moving to previous time images solve the issues, if at all any caused during drag and dropping all library files.

Major Update: (almost solved)

I created a new user account. I opened safari, as I said before it worked. So I copied all folders related to safari from it and pasted it to my drive.

Folders I copied: Safari, SafariSafeBrowsing, SafariSandboxBroker

I switched to my main user account. Copied these folders from drive to my Library (Replaced the existing above files in my main user account library)

It didnt work.

I then similarly copied and replaced all .plst files from Preferences folder in Library of my temporary user account to main user account.

I restarted my Macbook. I tried opening Safari, it bounced for 4 times but didnt open.

BUT

From the menu I selected File -> New Tab. Which ,as before, showed a blank tab, but later suddenly cloud login page(as we earlier changed the home page to open cloud.com as default site) loaded very slowly, no other visible features were shown, like sidebar.

I used it as an opportunity and opened multiple tabs and windows, and now safari seems to work. But the problem now is, even when I create normal window, only private window is created.

Edit: I am also afraid to close safari now, fearing it again stop working. But howmuch ever I try, only private windows are opened.

Edit 2: No wait, It works. I mean normal window opens. Finally here I am with a great relief of My safari working. But I have no clue why it took some time for this. As it initially didn't open, then took some time, and private windows were able to be opened. Then took some time and opened normal windows

Sure. But I haven't copied and pasted the entire library. just the safari-related library folders and .plist files from my new user account to my main account. So it worked.

I haven't taken the risk of placing the entire library on Desktop. Anyway, I will update here after 1 week, in case if there are any discrepancies.

Its been more than week, Safari works good. But It takes time to load certain websites, not specifically. Sometimes it load quickly, but sometimes it loads forever. Apart from that I haven't faced any issues so far.

I would be happy if anyone, at least in future, would be able to find out the cause for corruption of files. Any how, Thanks a lot for your constant support.

But I haven't copied all the .plit files from secondary user account to primary user account. I had copied just the safari related files. So far it seems good with no malfunction (Except forever loading of few webpage occasionally).

In case if I feel any other malfunctioning, I will have to resort to erasing the disk and reinstalling Mac OS. Thanks a lot for your insights and siuggestions.

Yeah, as you said I guess the issue is because of something that is beyond my control, as sometimes it is loading quicker and sometimes it is not. Anyway, thanks a lot for your suggestion throughout the conversation.

I have tried it. But of no use 😞. Is there any way of resetting safari?