Safari Bookmarks Backup from Time Machine

Thanks for the response Matt, However its not working. I found the old Bookmarks.plist file and copied it over, but its not registering on safari. I have restarted the computer and the safari. No luck. Also, the file wasnt located in the direct Library/Safari. It was in users/owner/Caches/metadata/safari/bookmarks. Which is odd to me because all of the forum dont mention any of that. Is there something im missing? I appreciate your help.

Thanks,

Jay

is the ~/library/safari a hidden file?

hmm, I dont have that file. Even on my rebooted mac. This is odd. im on OSX 10.8.5. do you think its different on this osx? ive rebooted it 2x and sent it to the geek squad.

andyBall,

Thanks for the help. you shed some light on my issue and I was able to resolve it. Incase anyone else has the same issue i just wanted to reiterate this journey.

When i rebooted the MAC for the second time, I wasn't able to use time machine itself but the information was still on the hard drive. Since I had to manually go into the hard drive to find the files, i couldnt just go to the finder go menu hold alt. to discover the user library folder. Library under users is indeed a hidden file. So i had to show all hidden files in order to find the correct file. In retrospect it is quite simple however with the variety of folders labeled library, it had thrown my for a loop.

PS: in order to show hidden files, open up terminal and enter the following code

"defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles True"

then you had to restart finder with the command

"killall Finder"

Then to hide the files to prevent accidental deletion of importent doc, replace false with "True".

I think once you figure out how to show the hidden files it will be easier and that's likely your only obstecale in getting this done. Its case sensitive and also varys slightly from different operating systems. So make sure your using the right code for your system to show files and dont forget to reset finder by "killall Finder" command in terminal. I attached a screen shot for you. I hope this helps!