03-03-2012, 06:26 PM

I thought, why sit here and weed through hundreds of cookies looking for the ones I need to keep when I can just delete them all and start fresh by logging back into all the password-protected online accounts and registrations at which time a new cookie will be created. But that is not how it's turned out.

Now if I log in, [I]even[I] when I click the "remember me" or "keep me logged in" box, if I log out of my computer or if Safari quits on me I have to log back in. Am I wrong about the cookie? Could something else be wrong with the computer?

Using 10.4.11 with Safari 4.1.3 on an old un-upgradable Mac mini.

03-04-2012, 11:25 AM

Do you have private browsing enabled?

03-04-2012, 01:15 PM

For I brief moment I thought you had become my savior. Unhappily, no, it is disabled, but thanks for trying.

03-05-2012, 10:48 PM

I just discovered something in my Console Log—line after line of the following:

2012-03-05 22:28:34.275 Safari[12743] Could not open cookie file "/Users/xxxx/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist" for reading.

So I went to my cookie file, tried to open the TextWrangler file, had to give my log in password, and found that it had recorded nothing since 2/28/ which was the day I deleted all the cookies. So what would be preventing the cookie file from opening?

03-06-2012, 09:02 AM

Got it thanks to someone on Apple Support Forums. He had me restart in Safe Mode and remove the offending cookie.plist file to the desktop. When I restarted a new working cookie.plist file was created and all is now right with the world.