Hi Carolyn, Thanks much for the suggestion. Sadly private broewsing is *NOT* checked. Good idea though and I had not checked that prior to posting.
Geoff On Jan 28, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Carolyn Haas wrote: > Hi Geoff: > You might check menus, Safari. If "private browsing" is checked, your > surfing history will not be saved. > > HTH > CH > On Jan 28, 2011, at 1:12 PM, Geoff Waaler wrote: > >>>> 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 >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
