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I have Safari 9.1, El Capitan. Changes I make in Safari preferences are not saved after I close the program. Library/Preferences/Safari does not exist. What to do?
iPad Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)
I think you are looking in the root folder not your home folder. Tilde ~ before the first forward slash indicates the home folder.
Try this..
Quit Safari.
Open a Finder window. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder
Type or copy paste the following:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist
Click Go then move the com.apple.Safari.plist file to the trash.
Relaunch Safari to test.
Please triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Show Info in Finder (or just Show Info)
from the contextual menu.* An Info dialog should open.
☞ Does the dialog show "You can read and write" in the Sharing & Permissions section?
☞ In the General section, is the box labeled Locked checked?
☞ What is the Modified date?
If you don't have read and write access to the item, change the settings as directed here. Note, however, that if one file has wrong access settings, most likely others do as well. If the item is locked, unlock it.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Open a TextEdit window and paste into it (command-V). Select the line you just pasted and continue as above.
I followed your instructions, but the file couldn't be found
The file could not be found.
Just found it by following your directions better. Locked is not checked. Sharing & permissions says I have custom access. Created Tuesday July 15, 2014 and modified the same date. Where is this file? It's not in /Library.
When I go to where the GetInfo says it's located Macintosh HD/Users/(my name)/Library/Preferences, the "/Library" does not exist.
Thanks. Finally I followed all your instructions and they worked.
I've deleted the plist, but SOME preferences are not saving.
In the General Tab.
In the Privacy Tab
• Ask websites not to track me resets to unchecked on relaunch
System is a brand new install, with Safari info sync'd back from the cloud (my laptop was stolen).
I have Safari 9.1, El Capitan. Changes I make in Safari preferences are not saved after I close the program. Library/Preferences/Safari does not exist. What to do?
