The sign on for Youtube is corrupted on Safari on my MacBook Pro- I can sign on in Firefox, but not on Safari. I pulled up all of my history, but when I highlight it and try to "delete" it doesn't work. I tried holding "command" also, "control" - but it doesn't work. I have hundreds in the history, but I don't want to delete my entire history- ONLY youtube. Is there a way to do this?
Thanks-
Open safari , take your cursor on top right corner click on sign in .
Enter your web mail id and password .
Click on this icon to enter into You tube page .
Click on search history , select the desired items and click on delete .
You can click on learn more to get useful tips .
You tube is not an Apple application , if you want to delete all history of You tube history , click on clear all watch history .
Safari browser history is different , to clear all your back history an article : Safari for Mac: Clear your Safari browsing history
The cursor on top menu bar > History > scroll down to clear History .
select all history from drop down arrows and once again click on Clear History .
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When I do a search for every time I've visited youtube (that's my problem- I can't sign in there- but only on Safari) over a hundred choices come up. I select "all"- they're highlighted and then when I click "delete" all the highlights disappear, and only ONE is then highlighted, and not even deleted. I've tried holding command, and control while trying to delete, but it's not working. I really don't want to delete all my history just to get rid of that, but I may have to..... no one online seems to have a solution. I was hoping that Apple support group would come through...
yes- and to tell you the truth, I got so frustrated that I finally just manually deleted about 1,000 history items - click, click, click...... and the problem is I STILL can't sign in to Youtube.... so that didn't even work for the original problem. I'm on the phone with Apple now to see if they can fix the problem. Thanks for trying.
Have you tired emptying Safari’s browser cache? In Safari->Preferences->Advanced check the box at the bottom that says “Show Develop menu in menu bar”. Now type command-option-e to empty your browser cache. Another avenue to consider, find and delete any YouTube cookies. Safari->Preferences->Privacy then click on Manage Website Data, enter YouTube in the search box.
I'm sorry that I probably confused the issue when I said it was youtube.com that I was having difficulty with....I appreciate the time you took- but the issue is that I wanted to remove all youtube history from Safari. I am having problems with signing on (the page keeps refreshing) to youtube and was told that removing the history would clear up the problem. It turns out to be much more extensive than that and right now the engineer level at Apple is trying to figure out what's going on!
And at this point, I've manually removed all of the history in Safari- and the Apple Genius I was working with told me there is no way to select a large group of the Safari history and delete just that- which I think Apple should correct!
Thanks, again-
Read what I wrote right above your posting. I am cannot login to youtube, and that's why I was trying to remove the history (cache) from Safari- NOT youtube. I cannot even get into Youtube. There's a corruption in Safari.
So you enter www.youtube.com in Safari and press Enter. Then what happens? Do you get to the YouTube website? If so what happens when you click Login on the YouTube main page? And by the way browser History and browser Cache are two different things. They are NOT the same. Have you emptied that cache per my previous post? Have you deleted any YouTube cookies per my previous post? You’ve never really explained what you mean by “I can’t login to You Tube.”
Actually, I was on the phone for about 6 hours last night with Apple Genius- we deleted history, deleted preferences, went through everything imaginable - (put it in the trash, restarted, but essentially saved everything just to test- and NOTHING worked). He couldn't figure out what was going on. So we made a log from my computer and it's going to the Apple Engineers to try to see what's happening.
but just for your information- I can of course get to a url for youtube.com - but when I click "login" the page would just refreshes itself. Nothing changed- groundhog day, over again.... I CAN login to youtube on Firefox, but there was something going on with only that page, and Safari.
He told me from everything I tried there's some mysterious thing going on that the engineers would have to evaluate.
I guess I have to click that the issue has been solved, although it hasn't because nice people are sincerely trying to help- but the Apple Genius ALSO told me that there is no way to delete part of the history - like searching just for "youtube" specifically, and trying to delete all of those.... It can't be done right now. I think it's a mistake that they didn't allow for that, but alas, that is the situation.
Again, thanks for trying!
Enter into system library : Click on finder > take cursor on top menu bar > Go > Computer > Macintosh HD > Library > Caches > select all contents and move to trash .
In user library :
Clear Caches and Cookies -> Click on "Go" on the top Mac Menu bar -> Press and hold Shift (for El Capitan and older version press and hold "Option" key -> Click on Library -> Open "Caches" Select all items in it and Move it to Trash and open " Cookies " and saved Application state select all contents and move to trash .
Open " Safari " select all contents except Bookmarks.plist and move to trash .
Remove Login Items -> Open System Preferences -> Open Users and Groups -> Login Items -> Select the item and click on “Minus” Run "First Aid" -> Open Spotlight and search for the "Disk Utility" -> Select Macintosh HD -> Click on First Aid -> Run First Aid.
button and minus all.
Remove startup items -> Click on “Go” Close unused apps -> Click On Apple Logo -> Force quit -> Close All Apps.
on the top Mac Menu bar -> Click on “Computer” -> Macintosh HD -> Library -> Startup Items -> Select if any item in it and Move it to Trash.
Restart the computer and move to trash .
If Anti - virus , cleaners , third party apps are there uninstall them .
But you have said nothing about emptying your browser cache which is where I believe the problems lies. History has nothing to do with how a browser interacts with a website. It’s merely a log of where you have been. Browser cache and cookies DO affect how you interact with a website.
In what version of OS X?
the latest.... Sierra 10.12.5
Have you tried selecting the website and then control - click/Delete?
How to delete multiple pages in Safari history
