Safari Forgetting Bookmarks?

Hello, I have a bit of a bug.
I had the twitter bar plugin for Safari, But I uninstalled it and then Safari started forgetting bookmarks and it lost some of them.
I tried deleting the com.apple.safari folder but that didn't work.
Does anyone have any idea how I might be able to fix this problem?
Thanks!
-Benjamin

Hi Benjamin
1: make a duplicate of Home/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist so that you don't risk permanently losing any more bookmarks, keep it on the desktop, or some other folder. To the same end - Export your bookmarks via Safari-File-Export Bookmarks.
2: Using Finder-File-Get Info on Home/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist - check that you have read & write access to it, down in the 'sharing & permissions' section. If not, click the padlock, provide an admin name/pass & change that.
3: If you've no other 3rd party software installed, perhaps the Home/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist file is corrupted - Quit Safari & trash it (you made a copy, right?) then try adding bookmarks to test things out.
If bookmarks are still a problem, quit safari again & move Home/Library/Preferences/com.apple.safari.plist to the desktop & try once more.
If trashing bookmarks.plist did sort things out, now use Safari-File-Import Bookmarks to get your old ones back - loading the file you created in step 1.

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