Hello,
I recently returned after being away for four weeks, and I'm having a new problem with Safari. It won't reopen all the windows and tabs I've been working with. All my work is lost!
What I get instead is many windows and tabs each with a title "Untitled" and a number. This problem has never happened before, and I've searched the world over but can't find a solution.
I always have research and work-in-progress going on in my browser, and that means many, many windows and tabs open. So, when I restart Safari, I use the "Reopen All Windows From Last Session". This has worked ok for me up until now.
(Also, I regularly back up my LastSession.plist, which is in Users>myaccount>Library>Safari. The reason why I have learned to back up this file is because Safari's implementation to reopen last session is very weak... if you open Safari to view one page, then quit again, all your previous work is instantly overwritten and lost.)
When I opened Safari this time, I emptied the cache. Maybe this was a mistake, but I've never had a problem doing this before.
I went to previous versions of my LastSession.plist, and they load with the same problem. I have looked at the plist file and it does contain all the urls of the websites I had open, but Safari isn't paying any attention to that data. It's just giving me a bunch of blank windows and tabs. Oddly, though, three of the windows with all their tabs are opening and loading properly.
I opened up Time Machine and tried restoring the old Safari cache, but it looks like this is not backed up by Time Machine because it can't be restored.
Does anyone out there have any suggestions how to fix this, so I can resume with my work?
This is annoying and I've already spent several hours trying to find a solution, and I'm swamped with other things to do. I don't understand why Safari and other browsers can't be designed to be more robust in this capacity. I have had problems with Firefox losing all my open pages too.
I have a fast new Mac with loads of RAM. Everything is up to date. This is the first time this has happened, and I'm hoping I can get Safari working the way it was before I went away.
Please help?!!
Thanks...
Dionosaur
I recently returned after being away for four weeks, and I'm having a new problem with Safari. It won't reopen all the windows and tabs I've been working with. All my work is lost!
What I get instead is many windows and tabs each with a title "Untitled" and a number. This problem has never happened before, and I've searched the world over but can't find a solution.
I always have research and work-in-progress going on in my browser, and that means many, many windows and tabs open. So, when I restart Safari, I use the "Reopen All Windows From Last Session". This has worked ok for me up until now.
(Also, I regularly back up my LastSession.plist, which is in Users>myaccount>Library>Safari. The reason why I have learned to back up this file is because Safari's implementation to reopen last session is very weak... if you open Safari to view one page, then quit again, all your previous work is instantly overwritten and lost.)
When I opened Safari this time, I emptied the cache. Maybe this was a mistake, but I've never had a problem doing this before.
I went to previous versions of my LastSession.plist, and they load with the same problem. I have looked at the plist file and it does contain all the urls of the websites I had open, but Safari isn't paying any attention to that data. It's just giving me a bunch of blank windows and tabs. Oddly, though, three of the windows with all their tabs are opening and loading properly.
I opened up Time Machine and tried restoring the old Safari cache, but it looks like this is not backed up by Time Machine because it can't be restored.
Does anyone out there have any suggestions how to fix this, so I can resume with my work?
This is annoying and I've already spent several hours trying to find a solution, and I'm swamped with other things to do. I don't understand why Safari and other browsers can't be designed to be more robust in this capacity. I have had problems with Firefox losing all my open pages too.
I have a fast new Mac with loads of RAM. Everything is up to date. This is the first time this has happened, and I'm hoping I can get Safari working the way it was before I went away.
Please help?!!
Thanks...
Dionosaur