Why are there no older Safari files in Time Machine?

For reasons I won't go into now, I lost all my Safari Bookmarks on my mac. I need to restore them from Time Machine, but TM has NO bookmarks.plist files from before the event occurred, just the current ones from yesterday. I can't find any Safari folders or supportring files on TM backups from earlier. I have TM set to backup my main system drive that would contain the library folder, etc.. How can this be?

I believe you will find the File to "Restore", from an older date, in Safari through Time Machine here:
Hope this helps

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Hello, no experience with TC, but...
Have you looked through Pondini's extensive TM help site?
http://Pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
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Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
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