What would cause "com.apple.Safari.History" to take up 1.05 GB?

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What would cause "com.apple.Safari.History" to take up 1.05 GB?

Hello all,

There is a process running called "com.apple.Safari.History" that is taking up a whopping 1.05 GB.

I checked by going into my activity monitor app (utilities) then sorted by memory usage.

I first suspected it might be iCloud Safari Sync so I disabled that in System Preferences then force quit the process. It popped straight back up.

I was wondering if anyone else is encountering this issue and found a solution to this.

Thank you very much.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch,Early 2015), OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)

Posted on Nov 26, 2015 8:30 AM

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Linc Davis

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Nov 26, 2015 10:47 AM in response to heliophobicdude

Please back up all data before proceeding.

Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:

~/Library/Safari

Right-click or control-click the line and select

Services ▹ Open

from the contextual menu.* A folder named "Safari" should open. Quit Safari if it's running. One or more files in the open folder should have a name beginning in "History". Move those files, and only those, to the Desktop, leaving the window open. Relaunch the application and test. If there's no change, quit again and put the files you moved back where they were, overwriting the ones that may have been created in their place. Otherwise, delete the files you moved. The browser history will be empty. If possible, restore the deleted files from a backup that predates the problem.

*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select

Go ▹ Go to Folder...

from the menu bar and paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V. You may not see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.

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