how to recover lost safari bookmarks

[agtem]

i am new to mac help and a horrible typist - recently i suffered a hard drive crash and a knowlegeable friend helped me find lost data and copied it on my new hard drive. Now I have lost all my last 2 or 3 years of safari bookmarks (hundreds of them!) - I tried to look for help via google search and a reference to your forum suggested chaining to library and in it to safari folder and in that pslist. I tried clicking on these and I got a BBedit document and could not convert it to regular text. Please help me by any other suggestion on how to retrieve my bookmarks. I had wonderful physics, archaeology, math and art sites I would have to take months to refind. Thanks for your help

 

[Ric]

Hi there and welcome !

Have you got this file from your old hard drive...

Macintosh HD/yourUsername/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist

If you have then make sure Safari is not open and copy the old file into the same location on your new drive, overwriting the one that's there.

regards

Ric