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Safari removed cookies reappear

I go to Preferences > Security > Show Cookies, then I select some (using the filter e.g. "__u" to catch all Google analytics cookies, or just manually Cmd-clicking), click Remove. Cookies seem gone, close preferences, when I reopen it right away, the cookies are still gone. But a few minutes later, they magically all come back, resurrected from the digital dead.

Without visiting any of those sites.
Top-sites disabled (and none of the sites were top sites anyway)
Cookie file not locked.

I know I can delete the Cookies.plist file to get rid of ALL of them for good. Problem is I don't want to get rid of all of them. Is this a known bug in Safari? I've seen [people|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10596345] [reporting|http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100820122246AAJDPJc] the [same problem|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10880559] going back several versions, but no good explanation or fix for Safari itself. Any ideas?

And if it's known, why does Apple not fix it?

Safari 5.0.1

MacBook Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.5.8), 2.1 GHz, 4 GB RAM

Posted on Oct 14, 2010 3:01 PM

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Mar 6, 2012 10:10 PM in response to Sven R.

I think I figured this out. I tried everything and the cookies kept reappearing. Sometimes almost instantly. I finally realized it is because my iPhone and iPad kept synching with my MacBook Pro.


When I deleted cookies on my MacBook, I had no idea they were being reinstalled by auto-synching the other devices (that were in different places around my house).


After I deleted cookies in all three devices, nothing has reappeared in the last few hours.

Safari removed cookies reappear

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