HT4910 Safair Bookmark sync using iCloud, iMac

Support doc HT4910 use of backing up in iCloud. A question not answered. My iPad and iPhone have all data I wish to back up checked on them. My iMac does not have Safari box checked in Sys Pref, iCloud. When I do select the box it wants to merge my Safai current BMs with iCloud. I did that and really messed things up. You see, I had spent a couple hours deleting old BMs and cleaning up iMac BMs. Lucky I salvaged cleaned up BMs from Time Machine.
So when one checks the Safari box in Sys Pres, iCloud, it asks "Do you want to merge these BMs with those on iCloud? Your information on this Mac will be uploaded and merged with the BMs stored in iCloud"
There is no place to say "No." I checked on the iCloud web page and can't even find Safari information.
Sys 10.8.5

just found this solution, worked like a charm.
1. From the Mac with the syncing problem, quit Safari.
2. Go to the Library folder in your Home directory. In OS X 10.7 and 10.8, Apple keeps this folder hidden. One way to access it is to hold down the Option key while selecting the Finder’s Go menu. You’ll see a Library option listed; select it.
3. From within the Library folder, locate the Safari folder. Open it.
4. Drag the bookmarks.plist file out of the folder to your Desktop. Once you’re done with the remaining steps, and everything seems in order, you can trash the file.
5. Relaunch Safari. Confirm that all your prior bookmarks are gone. Don’t panic. They’re still all in iCloud.
6. Now follow the initial steps 1 through 5 above. This time, when you get to the Merge option, it’s okay to click the button. As there are no active bookmarks on the Mac at the moment, there is nothing to incorrectly merge.
full article here: http://www.macworld.com/article/2029647/when-safari-bookmarks-fail-to-sync.html
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