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Where Is Bookmarks.plist

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so I am trying to locate - Bookmarks.plist - I found the Library as you can see above but then


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where the heck is Safari? Shouldn't it be in this list between Ruby and Sandbox?

Posted on Oct 31, 2016 4:53 PM

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Posted on Oct 31, 2016 4:56 PM

It’s in a different library. Choose Go to Folder from the Finder’s Go menu and provide ~/Library/Safari/ as the path.


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Oct 31, 2016 5:17 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

Great - so I found the Bookmarks.plist in Safari.

I moved it out to the Desktop with the intent of putting it into the Shared folder.

I was then going to switch the iMac to my wife's account and import it into Safari there.

The idea was then to sync her brand new iPhone on her account so that she would get the same Bookmarks in Safari that we had for years on our iMac.

However, when I dragged the Bookmarks.plist into the Shared folder in my account, I get this warning -


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should I be worried or just go ahead?

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Oct 31, 2016 5:29 PM in response to Niel

OK so I did press the Option key when dragging Bookmarks.plist from Library/Safari and I can see the Bookmarks.plist is still in Library/Safari and on the Desktop simultaneously - yet when I drag the Desktop copy to the Shared folder, I am still threatened with the above Dialog box - scary! I am reluctant to go ahead.

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Nov 1, 2016 9:34 PM in response to Eric Root

Yes but I think the following happens when you try this approach -

In my account I copy Bookmarks.plist

I then switch to my wife's account and find that the Paste command doesn't work since Bookmarks.plist is not on the Clipboard in her account.

In other words, whatever you copy in my account, is not available for pasting when we switch to her account.

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