I used to be able to simply highlight and hit delete key for any single entry in History. Now it's very messed up. I can use this method for some recent entries, but not all, and particularly any entry more than one day old. I've also tried hold Control, click, choose Delete from drop down menu - I click Delete and nothing. Is this another High Sierra issue? Thanks for any help.
MacBook Pro, macOS High Sierra (10.13.1), Safari 11.0.1
Backup your Mac.
Quit Safari.
Close all windows and quit all applications.
Hold "option" key down and click "Go" menu in the Finder menu bar.
Library will appear between “Home” and “Computer” entries in the dropdown.
Select "Library" from the dropdown.
Click the “List” view button in the Finder toolbar.
Move these files to trash and test.
1. Click open the Caches folder and scroll down the list.
Click open the com.apple.Safari folder.
You should see the Caches.db file.
Right click on it and choose “Move to Trash”.
2. Scroll down the list, click open the Safari folder and select History files.
Right click on it and choose “Move to Trash”.
3. Scroll down the list and click open the Saved Application State folder.
You should see the com.apple Safari.savedState folder.
Right click on it and choose “Move to Trash”.
Close Finder window.
Restart and relaunch Safari.
Test.
Backup your Mac.
Quit Safari.
Close all windows and quit all applications.
Hold "option" key down and click "Go" menu in the Finder menu bar.
Library will appear between “Home” and “Computer” entries in the dropdown.
Select "Library" from the dropdown.
Click the “List” view button in the Finder toolbar.
Move these files to trash and test.
1. Click open the Caches folder and scroll down the list.
Click open the com.apple.Safari folder.
You should see the Caches.db file.
Right click on it and choose “Move to Trash”.
2. Scroll down the list, click open the Safari folder and select History files.
Right click on it and choose “Move to Trash”.
3. Scroll down the list and click open the Saved Application State folder.
You should see the com.apple Safari.savedState folder.
Right click on it and choose “Move to Trash”.
Close Finder window.
Restart and relaunch Safari.
Test.
You can click on drop down arrow and choose the desired one say " today and yesterday ".
And if you want some items to be deleted from a group and not all of them , take cursor on top menu bar > History > Show All History , hold shift key and tap the items one by one to get selected they will be highlighted and selected , click on remove button or right click the portion and click on delete .
Safari/History/Show All History will give you a list where you can select an item and then use the delete key to remove it.
In safari preferences > General > remove history items - click on drop down arrows and select the desired option .
To delete all history items , click on History , scroll down in the column , hold option key click on clear History and keep website data , a window appears select the options from drop down arrows as Clear All History and click on clear history .
Entire history will be deleted that was saved .
Yes, this has worked in the past, but is not working consistently now. It works for an item I want to delete from today or yesterday, but won't delete individual items older than that. I have to delete all History even if I just want to delete a couple of items from last week, for example.
Of course, as I wrote, this will work for individual items in History for today or yesterday, but nothing older. For some reason, it's not possible to clear any individual items older than the day before, but it was possible before I upgraded to High Sierra.
In show All history you can select an item and click on Edit > Delete and it shows history items last visited today , a previous date for that item is not shown .
Thanks again, but I know about this feature. Again, what I want to do is clear a few individual items older than two days. I used to be able to do that easily by just highlighting the items and hitting Delete, but since upgrading to High Sierra (it seems to me) I can't do that anymore. Your suggestion would clear all items in History after one week or two weeks, etc, per the drop down menu.
Thank you, but I only want to clear one or two items, not all History.
Sorry, this reply posted twice.
I'll give this a try. Thank you.
On older items, try control - clicking on them. I was just testing and doing that gave me a delete option.
This works for most items in History for today and yesterday, but nothing older.
Having trouble deleting single entries in History.
