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fine0023

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Mar 15, 2013
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I am trying to figure out a way to discover if a history still exists somewhere on my computer of websites visited (from a specific day about three months ago). This is on a Macbook Pro, operating system is Sierra, and not using Time Machine or any other backup like that as far as I know. So far, I haven't tried much other than opening Finder, going to "Go to Folder" under "Go" from the finder menu bar, and then searching for "~/Library/Safari". Is it possible to use some type of software (like from http://sqlitebrowser.org), to see if it can read/translate some of the files in there (like History.db), and maybe that would show the IP addresses of the websites I was visiting that day on Safari at least?
Does that make any sense at all? Or is there an easier way of retrieving the deleted web surfing history from a specific day/time? Thanks.
 

Mr_Brightside_@

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Sep 23, 2005
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It was deleted with no backup? I'm going to assume not. If you could figure out where the history lives normally, you could attempt data recovery on the hard drive.
 

Fishrrman

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Feb 20, 2009
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If you don't have a backup from which the history might be extracted, I'm going to reckon that the answer is a solid, "no".

What was deleted "history", is... history.
 
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