How do I keep my Mac OS X Safari bookmarks in sync?
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Dave, I have a number of different computers running Mac OS X, and would like to keep my Safari bookmarks in sync. I don’t necessarily need to to have these bookmarks accessible within other Web browsers (though it’d be a bonus if Firefox saw them too) but if I designate one as my master bookmark file, is there any way to have my other Safari browsers stay synchronized?
Safari bookmarks are stored in your ~/Library/Safari folder, so at it’s most basic, you can easily copy the bookmarks file from machine to machine.
The format of this file is kinda funky, it’s not a simple HTML-based file as with most other Web browsers, but rather a hard-to-read XML datafile that is faster for programs to parse, but pretty much impossible for us wetware to eyeball.
In this instance, I’m going to…

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matt
January 19th, 2008
at 5:46pm
under safari’s preferences under bookmarks there is an option to sync bookmarks using .mac