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I use Chrome as my primary browser (Work and Home) but have to fall-back to Safari for side-businesses during work, such as music streaming sites.

For consistency, I like to keep my browsers in sync. Chrome carries all my bookmarks and I prefer importing them all into Safari. An obvious limitation of this is that to keep my Safari updated with latest bookmarks of Chrome, every once in a while I must delete all bookmarks / favorites from Safari and add them again (just to avoid any duplication).

Now I'm unable to find any button in menus / preferences to Delete All Bookmarks. And deleting each bookmark individually is a pain since there are over 280. How do I delete all bookmarks from Safari without having to reset it entirely (deleting Cache, Cookies, History etc)?

macOS High Sierra 10.13.3, Safari 11.0.3 (13604.5.6)

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Reset to default
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For those who've been in Apple's ecosystem for a while, this would be straight-forward. But since I come from Windows / Linux background, I'm not-so-familiar with the quick and (subjectively) intuitive shortcuts found here-and-there across macOS.

It's quite easy:

  • Click on Bookmarks menu > Edit Bookmarks
  • Here you get list of all your bookmarks and favorites (Tip: If you've imported your bookmarks from Chrome, all those that come from Bookmarks Bar of Chrome are listed under Favorites)
  • Click on the first bookmark (after favorites section), and hold down Delete key till all bookmarks get deleted enter image description here
  • Repeat this for Favorites
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  • I would appreciate if there's some tool / script that can automate this syncing (apply changes in Chrome's bookmarks to Safari)
    – y2k-shubham
    Mar 10, 2018 at 7:47
  • Why can't I just select all bookmarks and hit the delete key?
    – Jorge Arévalo
    Sep 29, 2018 at 15:54
  • Its great if you can. For some reason I was not able to select all at the time
    – y2k-shubham
    Oct 2, 2018 at 13:01
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    No, I mean I really can't. With High Sierra. I don't understand why such a simple thing isn't implemented yet...
    – Jorge Arévalo
    Oct 5, 2018 at 11:05
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    @JorgeArévalo Because you know, Apple..! Watch this
    – y2k-shubham
    Oct 5, 2018 at 11:13
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You can delete the file by using the terminal: 

$ rm ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist

Or by the finder by going to the following path (Cmd-Shift-G):

~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist
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    in my case I also needed to turn off sync with icloud (in "system preferences") and I deleted everything in ~/Library/Safari/ but that's probably not needed.
    – localhostdotdev
    May 1, 2019 at 15:39
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How to delete ALL bookmarks at once:

Go to Bookmarks->Edit Bookmarks. If you try selecting all, they all become selected, but if you right-click, they deselect.

Here's the solution:

  1. create a folder called 'toss'.
  2. select all the bookmarks and folders ACCEPT 'toss'.
  3. drag all items into 'toss'.
  4. right click on 'toss' and choose 'delete'.
  5. say, "hey, thanks JR. That was too easy".
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