Learn how to delete Safari Cookies permanently!

I found the folder, and the databases, and I deleted them. They still appear in the list in Safari/Preferences/Privacy/Manage Website Data. Even when I delete them, they reappear! Is there any other way to get rid of them? I do not have their relevant websites open and running whilst trying to delete them.

This didn't work. I found the folder and all those pesky files here: ~/Library/Safari/Databases/__IndexedDB/ and actually some where located in here: ~/Library/Safari/Databases/

However, when I check in Preferences/Privacy and open the "Manage" button these cookies/tracking files are still here. I tried to delete several times and they reappear. Could those tracking files be located somewhere else?

And yes, I re-booted the computer before checking to ensure the memory was fresh.

As the 2nd article points out, they are capable of regenerating after deletion with files that go to many parts of the system.

Safari/Browsers – can’t delete cookies

Evercookie

The myth of the dangerous cookie

Quit Safari.

In Finder go to Go menu and then Go to Folder.

Copy and paste this ~/Library/Safari/Databases.

Delete the contents of the folder.

Launch Safari again and check if all is ok.

If that doesn’t work, copy and paste this ~/Library/Safari/LocalStorage.

Delete the contents of the folder.

Then go to Safari/History and delete any entries for the related websites.

Test.

Eric,

Tried both. Neither worked.

~/Library/Safari/Databases (still empty)

~/Library/Safari/LocalStorage (only two recent files)

Closed Safari and re-opened. Went back to preferences, Manage, still 27 files that I cannot permanently delete. I remove them in preferences and they reappear. And no files in either directory that you list. This is frustrating.

I am working with Sierra 10.12.5

nordgers-MacBook-Pro:~ nordgerwald$ ls -l Library/Safari/Databases/

total 0

drwxr-xr-x@ 2 nordgerwald staff 68 Jun 30 10:57 ___IndexedDB

nordgers-MacBook-Pro:~ nordgerwald$ ls -l Library/Safari/Databases/___IndexDB

ls: Library/Safari/Databases/___IndexDB: No such file or directory

nordgers-MacBook-Pro:~ nordgerwald$ cd Library/Safari/Databases/

nordgers-MacBook-Pro:Databases nordgerwald$ ls -l

total 0

drwxr-xr-x@ 2 nordgerwald staff 68 Jun 30 10:57 ___IndexedDB

nordgers-MacBook-Pro:Databases nordgerwald$ cd ___IndexDB

-bash: cd: ___IndexDB: No such file or directory

nordgers-MacBook-Pro:Databases nordgerwald$ cd '___IndexDB'

-bash: cd: ___IndexDB: No such file or directory

nordgers-MacBook-Pro:Databases nordgerwald$ cd 'IndexDB'

-bash: cd: IndexDB: No such file or directory

nordgers-MacBook-Pro:Databases nordgerwald$ cd '_IndexDB'

-bash: cd: _IndexDB: No such file or directory

nordgers-MacBook-Pro:Databases nordgerwald$ cd '__IndexDB'

-bash: cd: __IndexDB: No such file or directory

This didn't work for us either.

We found various dodgy cookies in ~/Library/Safari/Databases and deleted them.

Couldn't find ~/Library/Safari/LocalStorage anywhere so we were unable to delete anything from here.

We cleared History etc but when we checked back in to Preferences/Privacy/Manage they were all still in there. Its driving me bonkers!

Its the same 32 showing up time and again! 😠

I had the same problem and I tried deleting the folders above and nothing worked... until I unchecked Enable Javascript. I don't know whether it's Evercookie or some other script that evidently recreates the cookies every time I delete them.

The sad news is that they return as soon as I enable Javascript again and many sites simply demand that it is enabled or are severily crippled or don't display at all.

I tried this. Found all of the persistent, unwanted cookies, and deleted them all. I then shut down and restarted my computer. Unfortunately, all of the cookies where still present, in 'Manage Website Data', plus an extra one, from apple.com

I tried this. Found all of the persistent, unwanted cookies, and deleted them all. I then shut down and restarted my computer. Unfortunately, all of the cookies where still present, in 'Manage Website Data', plus an extra one, from apple.com

Eventually, the only way I could clear all of the persistent cookies, was to delete Datatbases.bd, which I left in the Trash file, as a backup strategy, presuming that the file would be inert, whilst in Trash.

Today, everything was working fine, including visiting Barclaycard, and my Log In details still loaded and worked. I also looked in the ~/Library/Safari/LocalStorage folder, and found todays Barclaycard entry, which was acceptable. But I also found StorageTracker.db Abobe Acrobat DC.app Document, dated today, even though I hadn't used Adobe Acrobat. I have read that Adobe Acrobat is used as a method of entry, by hackers.

It's worth looking in all of these folders, to see what is being recorded, and delete anything that you don't want. I hope that this info will help resolve this problem, for others. I would like to thank all those, who have also contributed to resolving this annoying problem, at least, for me.

Apple doesn’t routinely monitor the discussions. These are mostly user to user discussions.

Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem or a suggestion for change. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem/suggested change solved sooner.

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You are welcome.

I don't have a Safari folder in Library. I searched and couldn't find it. I also searched for Databases and _IndexedDB and couldn't find them either!

See the 2nd linked article in my last post. The cookies install so that they can regenerate.

Trust this fix everyone! ...finally someone who knows the true resolution to this problem. I am operating Safari on OS10.10.5 and this totally worked for me!!!

Short bow... THANK YOU! 😉