I'm running Safari 13.1.1 on Mojave 10.14.6 with iCloud Safari sync turned on.
About a week ago, I wiped the history on my iPad without realizing that it would "sync" the wipe to iCloud, so it ended up also wiping the history on my Mac Safari.
So I restored the 3 files in ~/Library/Safari:
History.db (this was 90mb at the time of the Time Machine backup)
History.db-shm
History.db-wal
And everything was fine.
But then, after a few hours, my History "reverted" back to the 7/1 state. i.e. no history before 7/1 is available/visible.
History.db is still showing as 90mb in size.
I tried to restore the 3 files again, then use the Debug > Sync iCloud History from my Mac to overwrite whatever lingered in iCloud.
That worked for about a day, but then it reverted again.
I tried various combinations of turning iCloud Safari sync on/off, restoring files, and I even changed my Safari "Remove history items" setting from delete "After one year" to "Manually", but History kept reverting back. Sometimes it would take hours. Sometimes sooner.
It would do this even with iCloud Safari sync turned *off*, so I'm thinking there's something weird going on on my Mac and not iCloud.
More steps involving restoring files, then immediately rebooting, clearing caches, etc., but eventually, History would revert back again.
I do have multiple computers and IOS devices. But seeing how History will revert even with iCloud Safari turned off, I'm thinking that has nothing to do with this?
I'm at my wit's end. Does anyone have any idea what's going on and how I can fix this?
About a week ago, I wiped the history on my iPad without realizing that it would "sync" the wipe to iCloud, so it ended up also wiping the history on my Mac Safari.
So I restored the 3 files in ~/Library/Safari:
History.db (this was 90mb at the time of the Time Machine backup)
History.db-shm
History.db-wal
And everything was fine.
But then, after a few hours, my History "reverted" back to the 7/1 state. i.e. no history before 7/1 is available/visible.
History.db is still showing as 90mb in size.
I tried to restore the 3 files again, then use the Debug > Sync iCloud History from my Mac to overwrite whatever lingered in iCloud.
That worked for about a day, but then it reverted again.
I tried various combinations of turning iCloud Safari sync on/off, restoring files, and I even changed my Safari "Remove history items" setting from delete "After one year" to "Manually", but History kept reverting back. Sometimes it would take hours. Sometimes sooner.
It would do this even with iCloud Safari sync turned *off*, so I'm thinking there's something weird going on on my Mac and not iCloud.
More steps involving restoring files, then immediately rebooting, clearing caches, etc., but eventually, History would revert back again.
I do have multiple computers and IOS devices. But seeing how History will revert even with iCloud Safari turned off, I'm thinking that has nothing to do with this?
I'm at my wit's end. Does anyone have any idea what's going on and how I can fix this?