How Do You Keep Someone From Clearing Safari's History?

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Bali Cockfight

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Aug 17, 2002

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Chi Town

• Jan 11, 2008

• #1

My GF keeps clearing the history and I don't want her to clear Safari's history. I think she is up to no good. Also, any way to restore the history once it has been cleared? Thanks!

 

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Bali Cockfight

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Chi Town

• Jan 11, 2008

• #2

Take my girlfriend out of the equation and replace it with someone's kid. This might be something useful for parents who want to monitor kids' activities or prevent kids from erasing their internet activity

 

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NomadicTy

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• Jan 11, 2008

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If you don't trust her, just dump her.

 

wordmunger

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• Jan 11, 2008

• #4

Parental controls in Leopard allow you to monitor someone's surfing history.

However, in my experience they also slow things down horribly and arbitrarily ban sites that you don't want to ban.

If you just want to preserve your own history and not have her constantly erasing it, then set her up with her own account.

 

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Bali Cockfight

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Chi Town

• Jan 11, 2008

• #5

NomadicTy said:

If you don't trust her, just dump her.

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Trust me; I am looking for a reason.

 

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mkaake

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• Jan 11, 2008

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Bali Cockfight said:

Trust me; I am looking for a reason.

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That sounds like a reason to me.

 

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greg555

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• Jan 11, 2008

• #7

Could you get Time Machine to back up the browser cache folder? (Assuming you have Leopard and an external drive.)

Greg

 

ThisIsMyName

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Jan 11, 2008

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• Jan 11, 2008

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Tell her not to. Or get a different browser and maybe she wont know how to clear it.

 

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mikelong622

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• Jan 11, 2008

• #9

ThisIsMyName said:

Or get a different browser...

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Don't do that. Safari rocks. Just get a different girlfriend.

 

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Zortrium

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• Jan 11, 2008

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Quick and dirty approach - write a little bash script to copy the relevant history file(s) to some other place and set launchd to run it every minute (or whatever) when the computer's going to be used.

 

iPhil

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• Jan 11, 2008

• #11

How about logging out of your Mac account..

 

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Evader

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• Jan 11, 2008

• #12

install a key logger. But I'm with the others, if u don't trust her then ditch her.

 

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joshnegron

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Mar 20, 2008

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• Mar 20, 2008

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Monitoring Safari history

Zortrium said:

Quick and dirty approach - write a little bash script to copy the relevant history file(s) to some other place and set launchd to run it every minute (or whatever) when the computer's going to be used.

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How would I do what Zortrium described above??

 

John T

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• Mar 20, 2008

• #14

In my opinion, the best way is to set up separate accounts. That way she won't be able to use "your" browser.

 

donaldj

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• Mar 20, 2008

• #15

I found this on the apple discussions:

Open Terminal and type this in:

open -a TextWrangler /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/MainMenu.nib/keyedobjects.nib

then search for

<key>NSSource</key>
<dict>
<key>CF$UID</key>
<integer>115</integer>
</dict>

Delete it. Have fun.

Nosrac

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GoCubsGo

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Feb 19, 2005

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• Mar 20, 2008

• #16

I find it funny that people say dump her, you say you're looking for a reason...do you need a reason? Man up.

To watch her history I would simply use parental controls or keep her off your computer.

 

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stlee

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Apr 13, 2008

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• Apr 13, 2008

• #17

Here:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080205123312792&query=safari+private

Even if she deletes it, it'll be here at least for 24 hours. Private isn't so private anymore...

And yes, it doesn't take Dr. Phil to know that if you don't trust her you should man up. Although righteous indignation is always fun!

 

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SideWays

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Mar 25, 2011

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• Mar 25, 2011

• #18

Is there a way to retrieve Safari History on an iPod Touch if I don't have a Mac? Does anyone know if there is an App I can install that will track Safari page visits?

Thanks.

 

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Kauai

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Oct 13, 2010

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• Mar 25, 2011

• #19

Unless she is using your computer, or your account, what exactly gives you the right to do this?

 

DrDomVonDoom

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May 30, 2010

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Fairbanks, Ak

• Mar 25, 2011

• #20

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8F190 Safari/6533.18.5)

Load the machine with a keylogger.