Attempting to recover bookmarks.

Recently, I lost all my Safari bookmarks when transferring data from my old iBook G4 to a MacBook Pro.The iBook requires an Archive & Install because of a "kernel panic" as diagnosed by Apple Support. But before I do, I would like to recover those bookmarks.I can find my Firefox bookmarks easy enough under library/Application/Support/Firefox/Profiles/d6f8tado.default/bookmarks.html
but for the life of me I can't locate the archived Safari bookmarks. There is a file under library/safari called "bookmarks.plist" but I can only open it up as a wingdings text file. Am I close?
Please advise. Thanks.

Hi,
There is a file under library/safari called "bookmarks.plist" but I can only open it up as a wingdings text file. Am I close?
So close, you've already found it The file is saved as a binary preference file which is why it looks incorrect in a text editor.
Copy that to the equivalent location on your new machine and you should be good to go.

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