No safari plist?

Question

I've been having some problems with my safari autofill (it never remembers passwords or tells me that I entered something different). I read on the forum that I should delete the plist for safari. I went to library/preferences and there was no safari anything. There is also no safari folder in the library pane or the system pane. Where else would it be? What else can I do to fix my autofill problem?

Answer 1

Hello,
In order for Safari to remember passwords do this. With Safari open, go to the Menu, click Safari/Preferences. When the Preferences window opens, click the AutoFill tab and check the appropriate boxes. Also, with Safari open, from the Menu top of your screen click Safari/Empty Cache. And with Safari open, in the Menu click Window/Downloads. When the Downloads window opens, click the Clear button and close the window.
As for your com.apple.safari.plist file. It has to be there. Try doing a Spotlight search. Go to your Menu top of your screen and click round icon (all the way to the right) that has a magnifying glass icon in it. In the Search field type: com.apple.safari.plist A list will populate. At the top of the list click where it says: Show All That file will be in that list. Click the little white circle with an "i" in it...it will give you the path to the file.
Path: double click your MacintoshHD icon on your Desktop. In the Sidebar on the left click your Home Folder, that is your Users folder. Now on the right click the Library folder, then click the Preferences folder. I guarantee you that file is there and I'll tell you why. Without these files your Mac would just crash on boot. It needs these files to function. You wouldn't be able to use your Applications.
Also, go to your Applications folder, then open the Utilities folder and look for, "Disk Utility". Double click Disk Utility. When the window opens, select MacintoshHD 10.5 in the panel on the left, select the First Aid tab, then click where it says: Repair Disk Permissions. Allow that to run. It can fix a lot of little bugs. When it's finished, Quit Disk Utility from the Menu, in other words, go to the top of your screen and click Disk Utility/Quit Disk Utility. Do this once a week.
Now, go here and download Onyx for Leopard: http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs2/english/download.html It's a great disk utility that is free that you can download and use once a week. It will clean out cache files, log files and keep your Safari browser running in a stable environment. It's the second download on the page. Just follow the install instructions. Launch Onyx and use the Maintenance and Cleaning scripts once a week.
Carolyn