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Safari Cache?

Clusty said:
Well, does anybody know how? This is very important..
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Why? If you're worried someone will find something incriminating in it just delete it.

Edit: It looks like an SQL file... I dunno. You could try opening it in an SQL editor.
 
lancestraz said:
Why? If you're worried someone will find something incriminating in it just delete it.
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No.. that's not it. I need to view my MacHeist serial numbers, but I'm not getting a response from MacHeist.
 
Clusty said:
No.. that's not it. I need to view my MacHeist serial numbers, but I'm not getting a response from MacHeist.
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Why are you editing your cache then?

Anyway... It is an SQL database. You can open it in MS Word (using "Recovery text from any file") takes forever to open though. A true SQL database management app would be much more efficient.
 
lancestraz said:
Why are you editing your cache then?

Anyway... It is an SQL database. You can open it in MS Word (using "Recovery text from any file") takes forever to open though. A true SQL database management app would be much more efficient.
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I never said I needed to edit it.. I'll try that but what should I look for?
 
I just wondered if you managed to read what was in your cache

I have a similar problem we are using safari in Leopard OS I need to be able to read what I viewed on a website I know the date & time does anyone know if this is possible

Someone suggested cachediskinspector that would give me exactly what I need but it hasn't been updated to work with leopard

Just wondered if anyone had any advice/ideas for a non techie newbie to the site
Thanks:)
 
View Safari cache data

frasus said:
I have a similar problem we are using safari in Leopard OS I need to be able to read what I viewed on a website I know the date & time does anyone know if this is possible
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You can use BBEdit to search the cache.db file (in Leopard) for words/phrases/patterns. In Tiger, you can do a multi-file search in BBEdit to search the Safari cache folder (/Users/<user folder>/Library/Caches/Safari/). BBEdit has a great interface, is easy to use, and has great advanced features (such as grep).

You can also try opening the cache.db file in TextEdit or another text editor or word processor, or search through the file using grep in the Terminal.

These programs allow you to view and/or extract data from Safari cache data:
Retrospective
File Juicer
HistoryHound

In my experience these programs were not able to find the information I needed, whereas BBEdit did find it because it searches and allows you to view ALL the data, even if what you're looking for won't display correctly in a web browser.
 
Hi thanks for the reply
Do you know if there is a trial version of BBedit - would gladly pay if I knew it would do what I needed but didn't want to waste money

have read about using grep in the terminal but don't know how to do this - any help appreciated - not a techie I'm afraid

have tried filejuicer & history hound but not really of use because I need to find what was on website at a particular moment - site is constantly changing

toshnyc said:
You can use BBEdit to search the cache.db file (in Leopard) for words/phrases/patterns. In Tiger, you can do a multi-file search in BBEdit to search the Safari cache folder (/Users/<user folder>/Library/Caches/Safari/). BBEdit has a great interface, is easy to use, and has great advanced features (such as grep).

You can also try opening the cache.db file in TextEdit or another text editor or word processor, or search through the file using grep in the Terminal.

These programs allow you to view and/or extract data from Safari cache data:
Retrospective
File Juicer
HistoryHound

In my experience these programs were not able to find the information I needed, whereas BBEdit did find it because it searches and allows you to view ALL the data, even if what you're looking for won't display correctly in a web browser.
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Thanks again for your help toshnyc

Have downloaded BBEdit & tried searching but can't seem to find the info we are searching for, it doesn't seem to be in the .db file

How do we use grep in terminal? Sorry not a techie
 
frasus said:
How do we use grep in terminal? Sorry not a techie
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Type this in Terminal (all on one line) and hit Return:
grep -rin "phrase to search for" /Users/<username>/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db

Replace the text between the quotes (phrase to search for) with whatever you want to search for.
 
Hi everybody! I know that this post is pretty old... but may be some people will find interesting to know that SafariCacheExplorer may help to recuperate any cached file from Safari cache or any other Mac OS X cache.

Kind regards,
Mac1Lord!
 
Cache.db

If you wish to open cache.db you'd use the sqlite3 command. It comes with your mac and it's easy to use if you know SQL. Open Terminal > type in "cd ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari;sqlite3 cache.db". it'll open up the database and you can type ".tables" to show the table names <enter> then ".output FILENAME" <enter> then "select * from TABLENAME;" and it'll output to the desired file you could do "foo.txt" as the file name. I have three tables,cfurl_cache_blob_data, cfurl_cache_schema_version,
cfurl_cache_response, in it so i did the steps three times starting with the .output command for three separate files. Maybe this will help you and future questions on cache.db even though this post is old.
 
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