Safari Bookmarks and Time Machine

I've lost all my valuable Safari Bookmarks. How do I recover them from Time Machine
Any suggestions

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  • Restoring safari bookmarks from time machine

    Somehow bookmarks in one of my Safari bookmark folders got deleted in the course of attempting to move the folder. When I go into time machine to restore an earlier version of my book marks time machine does not display the contents of the caches folder where I understand the Safari bookmarks are kept, i.e. ~/library/caches/metadata/safari/bookmarks..
    Is there a way to get time machine to display contents of the caches and metadata folders? If not, is there another way to restore an earlier version of my Safari bookmarks? I have separate backups on external drives in addition to the time machine backup.
    Thanks,

    See if suggestions here help you
    Unable to retrieve Safari Bookmarks from Time Machine
    EDIT (copy from above response in thread)
    Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it, then copy it to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:
    ~/Library/Safari
    Quit Safari.
    Select
    Go ▹ Go to Folder
    from the Finder menu bar. Paste into the text box that opens (command-V), then press return.
    A folder window should open. Restore the file named "Bookmarks.plist" in that folder from a backup that predates the unwanted changes.

  • Safari bookmarks lost - Time Machine not doing his job ?!?!

    I recently made a clean install of my system (10.6.6). I backed up everything before, did it again to make sure it was really backed up, and then I inserted the DVD.
    Now back in OS X, I wanted to take my bookmarks from my back up. I know where they are /user/Library/Safari/bookmarks.plist
    The thing is that this bookmark file is like a couple of days old. There are bookmarks that should be there that aren't ! Same thing with the history.plist file : I looked at it while thinking of the last websites I went to before doing the back ups and these websites aren't there too !
    What's wrong with Time Machine ? I ******* hate it when machines don't do there job correctly.
    Is there a place where these missing bookmarks might be ? Or should I start using something else than Time Machine ? Where's the problem ?
    Thanks in advance.
    (edit: sorry, wrong subforum : this belongs in the Mac OS X v10.6)
    Message was edited by: jeremu19

    You might have been bitten by a fairly rare but long-known bug in Snow Leopard. See the yellow box in #D5 of [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
    Probably no way to tell at this late date whether that was the cause or not.

  • How to Restore Safari Bookmarks with Time Machine in Lion

    Hi -
    I want to restore my Safari bookmarks.
    I am running Lion and have a Time Machine backup with the correct bookmarks.plist file.
    The problem - as I see it - is that the "Library" folder - where the Safari bookmarks.plist file is located - no longer shows up (by default in Lion) in the Home folder.
    I fixed it so that "Library" does now show up in the home folder but since it was not set to show "Library" at the time the backup I need was done, it doesn't show up in the Home folder for the backup that I need.
    I have tried restoring the entire Home folder but this is not restoring my bookmarks for some reason.
    I even tried restoring the entire hard drive but that did not work either!
    It would seem that the "library" folder - even if it was hidden - would be restored when I did the entire Home folder or the entire hard drive.
    Any ideas?
    Thanks!

    Brillianrt! Worked like a charm.
    Then I found an easy solution to alphabetizing that doesn't require 3rd party software in a Macworld article:
    "Without resorting to external tools or dragging links about, it’s actually fairly simple to order the list. Make sure you can see a Finder window, or your Desktop, and the Safari Bookmarks window at the same time. Now just drag the folder (or folders) you want sorted from the Safari window to your Desktop—you’ll see the folder appear when you release the mouse. Switch to the Finder, and open each folder. Set the view to List view, and then close the window (not strictly necessary, but I’m a neat freak).
    Now drag the folder back into Safari’s Bookmarks window; Safari will treat it like a newly-imported folder of bookmarks and add it to the list. Open the folder in the Bookmarks window, and you’ll see your neatly-sorted bookmarks."
    Love my Mac

  • How can I restore Address Book, iCal, Safari Bookmarks from Time Machine?

    Is there a way to restore just the data from those three applications, or do I have to restore the whole program?
    Thanks,
    Paul

    You can restore things selectively, via the "Star Wars" display, per #15 in [Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/FAQ.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum).

  • How do I recover accidentally deleted bookmarks from time machine.

    I use lion os I still have the bookmarks on my ipad and iphone. I stopped the auto sync.
    Is there a way to import my old bookmarks from time machine?
    I can't find it .
    As a side note I was deleting bookmarks with the keyboard delete key and it ran away deleting bookmarks long after I let up. Then safari froze. died and lost the bookmarks

    I don't know why you moved the app. Move the application back into your "Applications" folder which is where it belongs and should always stay. Then drag the app down to your Dock, if the Dock icon is not there already.
    Now, open AddressBook. The click on the TM icon on your Dock. Now do you see the TM screen with AB open? Good. Use the TM time arrow back button until AB appears the way it used to be. Then click restore.
    -mj
    [email protected]

  • Safari stalls during Time Machine backups

    Ever since I upgraded to the combination of OS X 10.6.8 and Safari 5.1 (my workflow is not yet Lion-ready), I've been seeing Safari stall while Time Machine is running its automatic backup. I get the spinner on trying to interact with any tab's content, and then Safari tells me web pages are unresponsive and must all be reloaded (which itself baffles me...why do *all* my 100+ tabs have to be reloaded in this case? Aren't they each an isolated thread now?). This continues throughout the backup. Once the backup is finished, I can tell Safari to reload a tab and everything's fine again.
    Other apps will also sometimes become unresponsive during backups, but none as predictably as Safari. Some sites are more likely to start the stall cascade than others (Facebook is the worst culprit, though that may be due to my use of the Better Facebook extension). It's bad enough that I've tweaked the Time Machine settings to back up only every four hours instead of every hour, just so I can get a decent period of time between backups where I can work. (If I let it backup every hour, one backup is barely complete before the next one starts, leaving Time Machine essentially constantly backing up.)
    (Based on what advice has come up when I've googled this question, I will point out that Time Machine itself is not freezing. The backups themselves are proceeding normally, though perhaps more slowly than I'd prefer. It's only other apps I'm trying to use while TIme Machine is performing a backup that are freezing.)
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    OK. Problem solved.  Did a total clean install of Lion and stopped using Time Machine altogether.  Using Memeo Life Agent backup app on both Macs and sending backups to a 1 ter network drive. 
    Found restoring via Time Machine to be unreliable.  Also relized that with Lion and most other apps avilable for clean install via the net, I don't really need to backup my whole system as Time Machine provides. 
    Both Macs now run really well and no more problems.
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  • Restoring Firefox Bookmarks from Time Machine

    I just updated my OS to 10.5.8. When I went to restore my Firefox Bookmarks from Time machine using this pathway: /users/username/library/application support/firefox, I realized that I do NOT have a Firefox folder in this pathway. There is a mozilla folder that contains a folder called "extensions" and an icon labeled pkcs11.shlb.
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    this can't be. if you've been using firefox that folder must be there. firefox won't even run without creating it. maybe it got a hidden flag? run this in terminal and post the results
    ls -ladeO@ ~/library/application support/Firefox

  • How can i retrieve bookmarks from time machine?

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    You can use this button to go to the currently used Firefox profile folder:
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    *http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
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    *https://support.mozilla.org/kb/restore-bookmarks-from-backup-or-move-them
    If you need to recover more data, see:
    *https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Recovering+important+data+from+an+old+profile

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