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

[Bali Cockfight]

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!

 

[Bali Cockfight]

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

 

[NomadicTy]

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

 

[wordmunger]

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.

 

[Bali Cockfight]

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

Trust me; I am looking for a reason.

 

[mkaake]

Trust me; I am looking for a reason.

That sounds like a reason to me.

 

[greg555]

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

Greg

 

[ThisIsMyName]

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

 

[mikelong622]

Or get a different browser...

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

 

[Zortrium]

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]

How about logging out of your Mac account..

 

[Evader]

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

 

[joshnegron]

Monitoring Safari history

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.

How would I do what Zortrium described above??

 

[John T]

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

 

[donaldj]

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

source

 

[GoCubsGo]

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.

 

[stlee]

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!

 

[SideWays]

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.

 

[Kauai]

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

 

[DrDomVonDoom]

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.