>> Greetings y'all, >> >> Last week I reinstalled SnowLeopard and immediately updated to 10.6.6. >> Since then my Safari history is not maintained; the most recent entry is >> from he day before I reinstalled. I was kind of surprised that all my files >> were retained. I don't recall seeing an option to reformat my hard drive >> and falsely assumed this would occur,; perhaps I did not read the dialogs >> carefully, but I digress. >> >> I checked preferences in both Safari and Webkit but did not find anything >> applicable. In an attempt to resolve a different issue I ran the disk >> utility and repaired permissions after having reinstalled. I looked in >> /Users/USerID/Library/Safari and found two possibly applicable files named: >> "History.plist" and "HistoryIndex.sk". I opened the plist file but couldn't >> tell if the values were set correctly, hence didn't want to mess with them. >> I then looked at permissions, and noticed that the plist file was last >> updated just before I reinstalled the OS, but the index file's time stamp >> corresponds to the last time I launched Webkit or Safari. >> >> My last step involved a little GIYFing but that has netted me nothing so >> far. This isn't really a VO issue, but since there is quite a pool of >> knowledgable people hanging out here I decided to ask if anyone can offer a >> suggestion. If there are no easy solutions, did I miss a prompt? Is there >> a way to reformat the drive before reinstalling SnowLeopard? >> > Sorry for those who just experienced one of those dreaded DORD (department of > redundancy department) moments as I inadvertently posted this to VIPhone a > while ago. > > TIA and best regards. >> >> Geoff >
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