Bookmarks are out of order in safari 5.1.1

Question

Level 1

4 points

Bookmarks are out of order in safari 5.1.1

I can't recall exactly when this started happening (perhaps since I updated all my machines to Lion, perhaps upon a more recent update) but Safari is scrambling my bookmarks. If I drag a new bookmark to a folder it appears at the bottom of the pull down list.... until I shut down Safari and come back and its some other random location midway up the list. Its not sorting al-phabetically and bookmark synching is turned off. Ideas?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2), 27" 3.06 Ghz Core 2 Duo, 8 GB RAM

Posted on Nov 18, 2011 11:44 AM

Reply

Answer 1

Nov 18, 2011 11:50 AM in response to ggarness

Could be the preferences are corrupted ..

Go to ~/Library/Preferences. Move the com.apple.Safari.plist file from the Preferences folder to the Desktop.

Quit then relaunch Safari to test. If that helped, move the .plist file to the Trash.

~ (Tilde) character represents your Home folder.

For LIon: To find the Home folder in OS X Lion, open the Finder, hold the Option key, and choose Go > Library

Reply

Answer 2

ggarness Author

Level 1

4 points

Nov 18, 2011 5:12 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

I appreciate the quick response Carolyn. Unortunately that didn;t make any difference. Adding new bookmarks to a folder, quitting safari and then restarting pushes them to some random spot in he pulldown list. Very annoying if you use bookmarks a lot.

Reply