Safari - bookmarks - plist - corruption

At least once a day and sometimes more Safari replaces my bookmarks with an old version. I recognize it immediately because my bookmark bar will show a version i used a long time ago. Also all of my bookmarks are now messed up.
Luckily i have a good backup and now I create a backup of my plist every morning so when i see this happen I delete all my plist and replace that backup that i know is good.
Does anyone know why does this happens? I can't find a particular "event" that triggers it.
I've even gone so far as to write an automator script to delete the old version and replace with a backup version because it happens so often.
Thanks,

Did you deselect the box next to Safari in System Preferences > iCloud
And turn off Safari in Settings > iCloud  (for iOS devices)  
Might be corrupted Safari preferences ...
Open a Finder window. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder
Type or copy paste the following:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist
Click Go then move the com.apple.Safari.plist file to the trash.
Quit and relaunch Safari to test.

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