Viewing Safari History

I can't seem to view more than about 10 history items, and also, in the 'early today' list, it only allows me to see about 20 more. I have had a problem with either friends or relatives downloading content onto my mac and I want to trace it back to the source. In the meantime, I have reset all my passwords and have turned on my file vault. I have created a guest user account for my family when there are here using the internet, and have set parental controls for everything. Now, what do I do about tracing the downloads, because no one in my family will fess up. Plus, I use my airport for internet browsing, could someone outside my home be putting this nasty stuff on my hard drive? Please help anybody!

I was able to locate the the file. Thank you those who were viewing the post.

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