How to recover Safari bookmarks?

Thomas, you don't get it. (I'm an AV professional, and have done more backing up in my life then you could even dream of.)

Time machine doesn't instantly back up everything, it takes time. Once can lose an awful lot of bookmarks even if TM is constatly running in the background.

Additionally, suppose you make a big mistake, but don't realize it until a day later, in which time Time Machine has now updated your Safari plist to reflect the bad changes? You might get lucky and be able to search back a generation o the TM drive, but then you are losing even more bookmarks, and in some cases the older data will even be overwrtten.

A 10 - 15 minute, non-volitile cache would be simple to implement. The files are tiny. It just blows my mind that this isn't already implimented.

No, I do get it. Your data is your responsibility. Apple is not responsible for making sure you don't lose it. Neither is any other electronics company. They provide you with backup software that will help you, but you have to actually use it.

Your assertions about Time Machine are not accurate. Time Machine is easily capable of storing a long history of all your files, not just what is on the disk right now. You can restore just the bookmarks, and can restore from any point in time stored in the backup. If your Time Machine backups do not contain backups covering a decent length of time, then you are using a backup drive that is far too small.

It hurts to have everything go away in a puff of smoke.

It would be nice if iCloud had an option to restore Safari itself to a different date/time/point for bookmarks individually.

Yes, there is the option to restore via itunes but atm that is no help to me.

I don't have a Mac and my PC just bit it so I'm working on iOS only.

In my case everything was erased because I wanted to try a browser extension for Chrome which purportedly gave access to all my Safari bookmarks from a small button added to the browser.

(I misunderstood) All of the thousands of unorganized bookmarks from Chrome wrote overtop my hundreds of precious & newly-organized Safari bookmarks.

Just like that - gone.

My advice everyone:

No messing around with new toys or settings when sleep-deprived, stressed, heartbroken or high.

Ok I have time machine. How do i find my deleted bookmarks. I deleted a folder of bookmarks on phone in error and it wiped them from all me devices. Itried resoring to a certain date and that didnt work

On your Mac, in the Finder, choose Go -> Go to Folder. In the window that opens, enter (or paste) the following:

~/Library/Safari/

Then click the Go button. In the window that appears, you should see a Bookmarks.plist item. That's what you need to restore. With that window open, enter Time Machine, go back in time and restore an older version of that file.

Thanks! Pardon my lack of skill. How do i restore it from time machine once im there?

I figured it out ! Thank You !!!!!

This seemed to help me out.

1. Open up Finder, and search up "Users", click the Users folder once it brings it up.

2. Click on the little house that has your name written on the title.

3. Click the Safari folder. (if the folder doesn't show up, simply type in "Safari" in the search bar)

4. Click on the "Bookmarks" folder, this will redirect you to all of your bookmarks.

5. You can either copy and paste all the BM to your time machine, or you can just select any one, (since it will open up in Safari once again) and save it as a bookmark again.

Hope this helped.

If you were using iCloud to sync your bookmarks, you can restore them!

http://macreports.com/recover-lost-safari-bookmarks-icloud/