Safari Manual Migration of Favorites from 1 computer to another

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Safari Manual Migration of Favorites from 1 computer to another

I just bought a new macbook pro 15 inch mid 2015 2.8ghz 1tb. I have migrated everything over to the new computer manually, since I had used migration assistant to transfer files from old computers to new computers for the last 15 years and had accumulated ~100 GBs of legacy files and apps that had bogged down my system, and chose this time around to perform a clean install.

I have transferred everything over to the new computer except my Safari favorites. I'm running OS El Capitan 10.11.6.

I wasn't able to find any instructions on how to manually transfer Safari Favorites on the community boards. Are there instructions on how to manually transfer the Safari favorites from 1 computer to another?

I see several Safari folders and files in the Library Folder of my old mac. Is it just a matter of Air Dropping the following files into the corresponding folders on the new mac? Is there any particular order in which to move files over?

Library>Safari>AutoFillCorrections.db..Webpageicons.db-wal (includes Databases Folder, Extensions Folder, Local Storage Folder, Reading List Archive Folder, Remote Notifications Folder, Touch Icons Cache Folder, Top Sites File, Bookmarks.plist, and several other files)

Library>Preferences>com.apple.Safari.plist

Library>Preferences>com.apple.Safari.RSS.plist

Library>Preferences>com.apple.Safari.Extensions.plist

Library>Cookies>com.safari.cookies

Library>Cookies>com.Safari.SafeBrowsing.binarycookies

Library>Cookies>Cookies.plist

Are there any other files I should transfer?

Thank you for your help.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)

Posted on Feb 20, 2017 11:02 AM

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Kappy

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Feb 20, 2017 11:10 AM in response to emeraldthree

There is a /Home/Library/Safari/ folder on the old computer. On the new computer first quit Safari. Second, locate the Safari folder on the new computer (same location as on the old one) and delete it. Third, copy the Safari folder from the old computer to the new one.

The /Home/Library/ folder is invisible. If you don't know how to make it visible, then see:

Four Ways to Make the Home/Library Folder Visible

A. This method will make the folder visible permanently. Open the Terminal application in the Utilities' folder and paste the following red colored command line at the command prompt: chflags nohidden ~/Library then press RETURN.

B. Click on the Desktop, press the Option (⌥) key, select Library from the Finder's Go menu.

C. Select Go To Folder from the Finder's Go menu. Paste the following in the path field: ~/Library and click on the Go button.

D. In Sierra activate the Finder, press COMMAND-J, set Finder display to Icon view if it is in some other view mode, select your Home folder from the sidebar, check the box labeled, "Show Library Folder.

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