Main machine is still a 2018 Mini running Monterey and I just setup a new m4 Mini with Sequoia that is only being used as a media server. I just want a minimal setup on the m4 but by default, it was showing all my Safari bookmarks from the old Mini. No problem, I just deleted them all. Bad move, that also deleted all the bookmarks from my 2018 Mini! 🤣
Figured out what happened pretty quick - I have never used iCloud to sync bookmarks before, I like separate bookmarks on all my devices. Anyway, I turned off iCloud sync for Safari on the 2018 Mini and restored my bookmarks plist file from a backup. Everything was back to normal. But this morning, all the bookmarks were gone from the 2018 Mini!
Restored them again, which seemed a little buggy because the favorites were there but wouldn't show in the bar at the top initially, but did eventually after quitting and reopening Safari a couple times.
But what happened? Why did it remove my bookmarks when Safari was un-checked in the iCloud apps section on the 2018 Mini? Realized I never un-checked Safari under iCloud on the new m4 Mini though, so now that is also un-checked. But still don't understand why the setting on m4 affected the 2018 Mini. Is there some other setting that affects this?
Figured out what happened pretty quick - I have never used iCloud to sync bookmarks before, I like separate bookmarks on all my devices. Anyway, I turned off iCloud sync for Safari on the 2018 Mini and restored my bookmarks plist file from a backup. Everything was back to normal. But this morning, all the bookmarks were gone from the 2018 Mini!
Restored them again, which seemed a little buggy because the favorites were there but wouldn't show in the bar at the top initially, but did eventually after quitting and reopening Safari a couple times.
But what happened? Why did it remove my bookmarks when Safari was un-checked in the iCloud apps section on the 2018 Mini? Realized I never un-checked Safari under iCloud on the new m4 Mini though, so now that is also un-checked. But still don't understand why the setting on m4 affected the 2018 Mini. Is there some other setting that affects this?
