prefs/privacy/cookies and other… indicates "49 websites stored cookies and other.." when it changes to "209 websites stored cook..". List keeps changing - how can I read it? I want to see what new ones have been added and I want to select which ones I want to keep.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
From your Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Privacy tab.
Click Details to see all cookies.
When I click "Details" and that window opens, the list keeps changing and moving, alternating with a blank window then it appears to start at the "A's: but I can't scroll down as it then renews itself with different URL's so i cant catch it. I've tries selecting all and copy but nothing is there when I try to paste it into a word processor. I should have written that the URL counts keep changing between double digit and tripe digit and back to double digit and so on constantly. - It's as though there are e.g. 50 sites allowed then another 100 get in and are thrown out and it keeps happening repeatedly. This did not happen previously.
Open the Finder. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder
Type or copy paste the following:
~/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
Click Go then move the Cookies.plist file to the Trash.
Quit and relaunch Safari then try Safari > Preferences > Privacy > Details
I did this using copy-and-paste and it did not find such a folder.
I did some other searches and ended up searching "plist" and got a long list starting from 2007 until today with names beginnig with "info", "cache" "setu" "office" among other but no "cookies". I had set safari privacy to delete all the cookies which it did and then I restarted the computer and Safari. The cookie list in "privacy" is now stable - i.e. not scrolling and changing by itself although, as per ususal, it is adding progressively to itself as I refresh the window.
I guarantee you that file is there.
Make sure when you copy and paste you are including the ~ (Tilde) character before the first forward slash. That indicates your Home folder.
Yes, I did include the tilde - and get the immediate response "The folder can't be found".
Also a general search of the computer for plist does not find it either !
I wonder what that might signify?
>>I did include the tilde - and get the immediate response "The folder can't be found".
You're using Safari on Snow Leopard, right ?. If so, that's completely normal...the instructions given don't work. Instead, select the text :
~/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
then ctrl (right or 2 finger) click it & choose Services - Reveal; or continue with Finder - Go menu... & use only the folder name :
~/Library/Cookies
The command-click / reveal didn't come up with any plist (operation not completed as object not found - or words to that effect.
The GO to ~/Library/Cookies showed a cookie folder below the user account which contained the following binary files:
file://localhost/Users/catherinecronin/Library/Cookies/com.apple.appstore.plist
file://localhost/Users/catherinecronin/Library/Cookies/com.apple.Safari.SafeBrow sing.binarycookies
file://localhost/Users/catherinecronin/Library/Cookies/Cookies.binarycookies_tmp _32370_0.dat
file://localhost/Users/catherinecronin/Library/Cookies/Cookies.binarycookies_tmp _32370_0.dat
Well, at least I've found there is a visible cookie file record - even if I can't read what's in them.
The Safari prefs contiue to behave themselves after the cleanout earlier today - I'd still like to know what went one though - makes me suspicious I suppose.
Thanks for your help andyBall_UK
You're using Safari 6 or 7 ?, although I'd expect a Cookies.binarycookies file in either case.
Yes, 6.1.4.
Don't know much about these things - nor how they interplay with the cookies which nest in the browser.
Cookies.binarycookies stores cookie data. Safari's list shows cookies, cache, local storage & plug-in data.
I hope that it continues to behave.
prefs/privacy/cookies and other… indicates "49 websites stored cookies and other.." when it changes to "209 websites stored cook..". List keeps changing - how can I read it?
