How do I backup my Safari Preferences?

[camelia]

Hello

macOS High Sierra AND Mojave

I want to back up my Safari Preferences, where are they stored?

It is a good idea to backup them in a USB stick?

Thanks
Camelia

 

[Taz Mangus]

The Safari preferences reside in the ~/Library/Safari and ~/Library/Preferences folder. The best way to backup those preferences is to use Time Machine.

 

[camelia]

The Safari preferences reside in the ~/Library/Safari and ~/Library/Preferences folder. The best way to backup those preferences is to use Time Machine.

Thank you!
Camelia

 

[camelia]

The Safari preferences reside in the ~/Library/Safari and ~/Library/Preferences folder. The best way to backup those preferences is to use Time Machine.

What about backing up with CCC?

Where cookies are stored? i do not want to backup this file

Thanks
Camelia

 

[Fishrrman]

OP asked:
"What about backing up with CCC?"

When you use CCC, EVERYTHING gets backed up.
And the backup is bootable, as well.

 

[jbarley]

OP asked:
"What about backing up with CCC?"

When you use CCC, EVERYTHING gets backed up.
And the backup is bootable, as well.

Unless you choose to backup only certain selected files...

 

[Weaselboy]

I want to back up my Safari Preferences, where are they stored?

I see you mentioned you don't care about backing up cookies... so what exactly are you trying to save?

If you just want to save bookmarks, you can easily export them to a file and just save that.

 

[camelia]

I see you mentioned you don't care about backing up cookies... so what exactly are you trying to save?

If you just want to save bookmarks, you can easily export them to a file and just save that.

View attachment 931970

I am only trying to backing up my Safari Preferences, that's all
No Bookmarks, No cookies only Safari Preferences...

Is it too hard? 😭😭

Thanks
Camelia

 

[Weaselboy]

That should be saved in the file called com.apple.Safari.plist in the folder ~/Library/Preferences.

~ is your users folder.

 

[camelia]

That should be saved in the file called com.apple.Safari.plist in the folder ~/Library/Preferences.

~ is your users folder.

Thanks, Now my preferences are backed up



But

I do not want to backup the default Bookmarks



What I do is manually delete all the defaults Bookmarks and create a New folder, then select the favorites to show to the folder I created in General Preferences






Is possible to backup "Favorites shows" And Not backing the default Bookmarks?

Thanks
Camelia

 

[Erehy Dobon]

Why don't you just delete the default bookmarks under Favorites?

 

[camelia]

Why don't you just delete the default bookmarks under Favorites?

Because I have to repeat the same task over and over again each time a Security Update is released in more than 12 MBP at work!

Any other idea?

Thanks
Came

 

[camelia]

That should be saved in the file called com.apple.Safari.plist in the folder ~/Library/Preferences.

~ is your users folder.

Hello Again

I can see the file called com.apple.Safari.plist in the folder ~/Library/Preferences in High Sierra

but in Mojave I cannot find "com.apple.Safari.plist", there is only:

com.apple.Safari.SafeBrowsing.plist
com.apple.Safari.SandoboxBroker.plist

Please help 😭😭

Camelia

 

[dickie001x]

It's there for me - not sure why it's not for you. There is also a file in:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Safari/Data/Library/Preferences (and also SyncedPreferences)

Use the free app Find Any File - I find it so much easier than Finder or Spotlight.

 

[Weaselboy]

I'm on Catalina and I still see it in that folder.

 

[Taz Mangus]

When I updated from Mojave to Catalina com.apple.Safari.plist was in the ~/Library/Preferences folder in my Mojave backup.