Safari History

Why can't I clear my Safari history? I see the two options: Clear Cookies and Clear History--and I don't have a problem clearing cookies--but "history" is light in color and nothing happens when I select it.

Look at the very bottom of the History menu option.

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You restore the phone using a backup made before you cleared it. If you don't have a backup from when it was present, then it's gone.

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I'm using Safari 5.0.3 and I prefer keeping the browsing history quite long for accessing contents I had been searching in the net some weeks ago.
However, that way I'm collecting lots of clutter and therefore I'd like to remove selected entries from the history, e. g. from the page where I'm reading daily news etc.
I tried to use the search field (accessible with Cmd-F in the history view) to search for parts of the corresponding web address, e. g. "http://www.heute.de", but I do not only get the history items from that site but many others from google and other pages.
So I'd like to know: is there a search syntax to use the search field, like address=www.heute.de* which enables wild cards, operators like OR/AND etc.?
If not, is there a 3rd party tool which can help or can I use spotlight/the finder to find and remove the unwanted items from the browser history?

Hi beckmart
there might be ready-made apps or add-ons to do that - but this may help...
quit safari, open Home/Library/Safari/History.plist using PrefSetter
enter the url you want removed in the search box, no need for quotes - say www.google.com
expand the 'web history dates' section at left to see individual results, then select the first one & shift-click the last (don't use select all) to highlight/select all the results - then press the delete key to remove them. Then save the file.
Naturally, a backup copy of history.plist would be wise - but the above seems to work very well.

How did old Safari History Items I haven't visited in years appear recently?

I upgraded to Mountain Lion on Saturday October 13th. I then ran software updates, and got everything up to date. I was home alone, and the only thing I went to YouTube for was to get guidance for setting up Facebook and Twitter notifications. That's it. Today, using spotlight, some Safari History Items appeared for October 13th, 2012 for sites I haven't visited in years. However, none of them show up in my Safari Histroy. What gives?
Please help! I'm being accused of looking at inappropriate material when I didn't.
I'm at a loss to explain what really happened. Any concrete help will be greatly appreciated

Triple-click the line below to select it:
~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari/History
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select Services ▹ Open from the contextual menu. Delete the contents of the folder that opens. Quit and relaunch Safari.

ICloud Safari History not syncing across my devices with Yosemite and iOS 8

I have a MacBook Pro with the latest update of Yosemite installed, an iPad 2 with iOS 8.1.1, an iPhone 6 with iOS 8.1.1 and other things seem to be syncing like my bookmarks, reading list, and all other iCloud data as well as iMessages and text messages. But the one thing that does not seem to be syncing is my browsing history in Safari. This is supposed to be a new feature of Yosemite and iOS 8 and it is working for a friend of mine but not me.
How can I fix this? I've tried going into iCloud settings on all three devices and turning off Safari sync and then turning it back on but no luck.

I spoke with Apple support again this weekend. The first support specialist told me that Safari browsing history was not a feature at this time. When I sent a screenshot of the notes of what updated in Safari 8.0.2 on December 11, 2014 from the AppStore, I got transferred to a senior support specialist. They had me try things like log out of icloud and then reset my network settings on my devices. But that unfortunately did not work. My next step which I did not have time to do, is to see if it is my iCloud account by creating a new iCloud account, logging out of iCloud and then resetting my network settings and then logging into iCloud with the new iCloud account and see if Safari history syncs.
I'm not sure what they will do for me if it is my iCloud account because I have so much on that account and have email addresses that I don't want to lose. And if it isn't the iCloud account they said it is probably my devices but I am not sure what they will have me do to try to fix it if it is. Set them up as new? I don't really want to do that, it takes forever to get everything back on the device.

Safari history - how to restore from Time Capsule?

Background...
I couldn't open Safari today (beachballing with no window opening whatsoever), presumed the "com.apple.Safari.plist" file was corrupted so deleted it from "~/Library/Preferences", and restored a copy using Time Machine from my Time Capsule from yesterday before I had the issue. Safari settings from yesterday restored and working.
However...
My Safari History going back 2 years has deleted to just one month ago! How can I restore these from a previous Time Capsule backup? Is it just "History.plist" file from "~/Library/Safari" that needs to be restored, or also the one titled "HistoryIndex.sk" in the same location, and/or any others?
Also, do I need to restart machine after restoring all files needed, or should the history show immediately after just relaunching Safari?
Note: I tried doing the "History.plist" one only, yet still just get the one month of history showing. This is really urgent as I have sites in my 2 year browsing history I need to get to again!
Help very very gratefully received :-\

jimthing wrote:
Though I am still finding that with circa 2 years worth of history, they may be starting to delete from the back-end after a while; so I presume there may be a theoretical max amount of sites and/or dates Safari will keep in there regardless of setting "Manually" for history deletion.
I doubt there's a maximum size specific to the History plist, but that (or corruption of it) would be the only limitation. And yes, plists do get corrupted with some frequency.
And I don't know, either, what would happen if the plist got to a maximum; whether you'd get a message, or it would drop the oldest entries.
That must be a huge+ file after 2 years! It's a bit surprising that it hasn't gotten corrupted before.
If your browsing history is that important, I'd suggest finding some other way to keep it that long, such as bookmarking the critical sites. That would take much less room (and be less subject to corruption) than the history of every site you've ever visited, every time.
And/or, there might be a 3rd-party app that would help. I don't know of any, but it might be worthwhile to look for one.

Is it possible to find the time a website was visited in safari history?

Is it possible to find the time a website was visited in safari history?

See:
http://www.justanswer.com/computer-programming/7c5qf-iphone-settings-safari-adva nced-website-data.html

Stupid Question? - Safari History

For some reason the dates in my Safari history are incorrect. i.e. Today is Sunday, June 1st, but when I go to access History from the toolbar, it lists yesterday as Friday, May 30....so dates in History are off by one day. However, my system time & date is set correctly.
Probably a stupid question, but any idea how I can fix this?
Thanks

I can't find the word "yesterday" on my History menu. Where do you see that?
For me it shows "Earlier Today" then it starts showing the dates underneath that.
Of course, I didn't use Safari yesterday, so that might be why.

In Safari, history has disappeared. How do I get it back?

In Safari, History has disappeared. How do I get it back?

Try quitting Safari completely and then reboot your iPad.
Tap the home button once. Then tap the home button twice and the recents tray will appear at the bottom of the screen. Tap and hold down on any app icon until it begins to wiggle. Tap the minus sign in the upper left corner of the app that you want to close. Tap the home button twice.
Reboot the iPad by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider if it appears on the screen - let go of the buttons. Let the iPad start up.

Safari history limited to 100000 items

Why is Safari history limited to 100000 items although set to be removed manually? Is it a bug?
This happens in Safari 6.0.1 (8536.26.14) and OS X 10.8.2 but also happened in 10.7 — but it didn’t AFAIR prior to 10.5.

I have done a bit of digging and contributor LeonieDF has come up with this:
How about this:
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/09/04/terminal-tips-change-safaris-history-limit/
Limit to number of items:
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitHistoryItemLimit 2000
Limit to number of days:
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitHistoryAgeInDaysLimit 30
It has been tested and does not balk at 200,000.
So you could try setting it at 1,000,000! Post back in a few years to tell us if it worked!

Shared safari history

HI
i found on my iPhone 4s , on safari history many adult sites saved in the history that I didn't recognize , I've never visited any of these sites , no one has an access to my phone , but I shared my Apple ID with someone , so could he browsing these sites and his safari history is shared on my mobile , I know that safari does not share history on your devices so what's the reasonable answer to this

I thought you were referring to the "history" you see on the tabs list. This will include more than just open tabs from an iOS device; it will include all tabs that have not been cleared, which can sometimes go back quite a while depending on your browsing frequency. (My tabs list includes 24 sites, and all appear as iCloud tabs on my other devices.) If you are referring to the history folder inside the Bookmarks section on your phone, then that should only reflect sites previously visited on your phone (i.e., it doesn't include sites visited by other devices sharing the account). Syncing browsing history will be a new feature of iOS 8 later this fall.

Convert Safari History lastvisiteddate to date time

I want to Convert Safari History lastvisiteddate to date time.

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Preserving Safari history for use in a new iMac installation

My Mother is ready for a new iMac but has a strong afinity to using the Safari history for browsing sites she's accessed previously. Reading about Safari history has alerted me to the "plist" file that the history is saved in. I need to determine how I can transfer a XOS plist file between ver 10.5.8 and ver 10.7 of Safari without running into permission or authorization issues to successfully save this information for her use with Safari in the new machine.
In a past upgrade I missed how important the Safari history file was to her. I ended up with a very disappointed user/Mom which was an experience I don't intend to repeat.
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I know that I can find the Safari history file on my Macbook Pro ( late-2012) running Mavericks 10.9.1 here:
~/Library/Safari/History.plist
I know, too, that I can use python libraries and so forth to read the .plist file.
What I don't understand is that, when I look at the history page of Safari, I already have exactly what I want - a table with 'Website', 'Parent', 'Address' in three columns, with the date of my visit in the 'Parent' column. All I want to do is copy and paste this into a spreadsheet, Numbers, say. It's simple, really, it's a handy way for me to work out where I've been spending my time so I can put together an accurate timesheet.
However, I can't use it. I select it and copy it - that works fine, but, when I past it, I only get the first column, 'Website'.
What is iTunes doing? I've not seen this behaviour elsewhere, where you simply can't copy some columns.
Is there a way to get around it? If I try to e-mail it, I simply get an e-mail with no content.
It would be an awful lot easier to just use this, rather than mess about with the .plist files.

Then there's no way to recover the lost data. You will lose every bit of data you have if you don't start backing up.
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