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Where are Google Chrome bookmarks stored in macOS for multiple profiles?
As you've stated, the default location is found within:
Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default
However, when you create additional profiles, the name Chrome uses on ...
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How do I manually add a URL as a bookmark in Safari?
Add a new bookmark (any site will do)
Navigate to Bookmarks -> Edit Bookmarks in the menu bar
Find the bookmark you just added and edit the URL/Title
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Move set of open Safari windows/tabs to another Mac
☞ Is there a set of URLs or bookmarks somewhere used by Safari to remember open windows/tabs between sessions?
In macOS Catalina the ~/Library/Safari/LastSession.plist file contains a list of all ...
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Left third of iPad screen is blocked with bookmarks column
Tap the bookmarks icon in the toolbar to hide the bookmarks. The button is blue when the bookmarks list is shown.
https://www.howtoisolve.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2-Bookmark-panel-in-safari....
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How to get icons in Safari favorites (aka favicons) to display correctly?
Here's a hack that works very nicely (it takes a moderate amount of simple image manipulation though. Also, see a note at the very bottom of this answer in order not to completely lose this fix and ...
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Where are Google Chrome bookmarks stored in macOS for multiple profiles?
Additional Chrome profiles are stored in:
~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Profile 1,
~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Profile 2, etc...
along with their corresponding ...
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Bookmark all tabs in Chrome on iOS?
There is no direct way to do this in Google Chrome for iOS.
However there is a work around:
It requires you to have sync enabled on both your iOS device and a Mac or PC running the desktop Google ...
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How to sort Safari Bookmark Folders in MacOS Catalina 10.15?
Create a new bookmark folder named tmp.
Drag all of your top level bookmarks folders to the new tmp folder.
Right click on tmp folder and hit Sort By.
Extract all folders from tmp and delete tmp.
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Delete all Bookmarks / Favorites from Safari
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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Delete all Bookmarks / Favorites from Safari
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) ...
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Where are the Safari bookmarks stored on a computer
If you're just wanting to transfer your Safari Bookmarks, then:
In Safari, on your old Mac, you can export the bookmarks, Safari > File > Export Bookmarks… and you can then import them on your ...
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Cannot convert m4a files to m4b with AppleScript
mp4, m4a, and m4b are alternative filename extensions for the MPEG-4 Part 14 container format. To "convert" an m4a file to m4b, just rename the file. That's what the script you linked to also does.
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How do I remove bookmarks from Terminal window?
Right-click on the line in the terminal with the bookmark, and select "Unmark"
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How do I remove bookmarks from Terminal window?
I double this is an issue still, however, I thought I would answer it for anyone else who comes across this minor problem.
In El Capitan, Bookmarks are not saved across different Terminal sessions. ...
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Applescript - bookmark all tabs in ALL WINDOWS in Safari
As I told in the above comment, now me using an self-developed automator workflow-app.
I'm an perl language developer, so in the workflow me using an custom-installed perl interpreter and many perl ...
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Move set of open Safari windows/tabs to another Mac
Tab groups in Safari 15 synchronise over iCloud. You can switch to a tab group from another Mac and all your tabs will be opened. Opening or closing a tab in a tab group on one Mac will perform the ...
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iCloud Drive Favorites on iCloud.com?
I can't find a way to add a folder to favourites from the web interface. Here's a workaround though. You can add a folder to favourites on iOS, and that configuration change will be synced to the web ...
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How to merge two or more Safari Bookmarks.plist files together?
Neither macOS or Safari provide a direct way to merge multiple Bookmarks.plist files so as not to contain duplicate items.
Some choices are:
Manually import each Bookmarks.plist file (Safari > File >...
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Alphabetically Sorting Safari Bookmarks
This functionality is now available with the most recent OS update, 10.13.4. You are now able to sort either by name or website:
https://www.macobserver.com/tips/quick-tip/macos-10-13-4-sorting-...
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Alphabetically Sorting Safari Bookmarks
You cannot. Safari does not include that functionality.
You can easily achieve sorting using plugins such as SafariSort, but as you write that you do not in want to use any third party tools - you're ...
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Share books and bookmarks between all devices
Using iBooks with iCloud makes this very easy.
Make sure you have an active iCloud account and are signed in on both macOS and iOS.
Open iBooks (if asked enable iCloud for iBooks).
Select File > Add ...
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Could my Mac have loaded a web page without my knowledge?
You might have experienced Safari's Top Sites feature. It tries to keep an up-to-date cache of pages in the Top Sites list, which includes a thumbnail rendering of the site.
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PDF reader for iPad with both bookmarks and continuous scrolling, without long save and load times
iBooks now has vertical scrolling
It’s enabled via ‘Aa’ at the top right corner
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I need a keyboard shortcut for Adding Bookmarks for multiple tabs in Safari
OK, so the AppleScript required to click that menu item is quite simple:
click menu item 8 of menu 1 of menu bar item "Bookmarks" of menu bar 1
To come up with this particular incantation I used ...
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Bookmark all open tabs in mobile safari
Tyler Brook, the article you link as a solution is for a computer type of device and not an iPhone or mobile version of the browser. The mobile version has a more limited menu.
I have the same ...
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Bookmark all tabs in Chrome on iOS?
Perhaps there wasn’t a way when this question was originally asked, or maybe how to accomplish this in a straightforward manner just wasn’t - as it has remained until now - well known or intuitive. As ...
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Prevent saved home screen icons opening a browser without address bar?
The idea of "Add to Home screen" is to create an app-like experience for web apps, so this will not give a full browswer.
But there is an alternative: Use the Shortcuts app with an "Open URL" action ...
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"Add to Home Screen" saves wrong URL
If you’re asking from an end user perspective, a workaround is turning on Airplane Mode. That will allow you to then browse to the site, it won’t load, but adding to home screen will be the address ...
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Collect Safari Bookmarks 'programmatically' using PlistBuddy
I may be misreading the question, but if your goal is to pull out some plist(5) data, have you considered going the xpath(1) way? For example, the following would try to first convert a Bookmarks....
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