Safari history limited to 2 days

Hi folks
I am not sure if it has resulted from me having tinkered with the cache in Macjanitor, Cocktail or System Optimizer X but whatever I seem to have done my Safari app (2.0.1) won't appear to hold more than a couple of days history at a time (whereas Explorer appears unaffected with history dating back weeks)
Any advice or suggestions as to how to rectify this would be most gratefully received, as I'm in the dreadful habit of thinking I don't need to add any more to my huge list of bookmark because the relevant page will still be in my history and this is proving to be a real pain in the backside
Many thanks in advance as ever for any assistance you can lend
Big Love
Bernard

Thanks a million Yang for bothering to get back to me. I will give this a go, although to be honest I'm extremely useless when it comes to using lines of code type commands in terminal (being a technological nincompoop was one of the reasons I originally became an Apple Mac afficionado
It's also occured to me that I have another problem when using Safari.
With certain web sites, if I click the "refresh" button, it appears to refresh from the cache, rather than the latest version of the web site. I only know this to be a fact because there have been occasions when others have told me that a certain page has been updated, when according to my machine it remains the same as before
If you have any suggestions as to how I can cure this I would also be extremely grateful, since the last thing I want is to go back to being another Explorer lemming
Again thanks a million for your assistance
Kind Regards
Bernard

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