iBackupSafari

Or, go to File-->Export Bookmarks to backup, then File-->Import Bookmarks to restore.

This application is just for people who want to do it easy. Not everybody wants to go into his System folder... And when you export the bookmarks from safari, they wont get imported in the bookmarks menu and the bookmark bar... They will be placed in a folder.

The fact that this restores the bookmarks bar menu is all the reason to use this. Simply backing up your book marks list does not do this.

> Not everybody wants to go into his System folder... ~/Library/Safari isn't the System folder (i.e. /System). > The fact that this restores the bookmarks bar menu is all the reason to use this. Simply backing up your book marks list does not do this. Whenever I've copied ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist to a different system the Bookmarks Bar is always preserved.

Yes but when you restore it, are your bookmarks automatically placed back in your bookmarks bar or a separate folder?

The Bookmarks Bar is identical on whichever system I copy ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist to. It shows up both under the toolbar and as a Bookmarks Bar collection, as expected. Ever since Safari's existed I've been copying my designated master Bookmarks.plist file to different systems and it's always worked that way. I wouldn't still be doing it if it behaved differently.

It appears then that there really is no purpose for this app then.

The developer stated a purpose for it and people with little technical savvy might appreciate it. Surely it could be smaller, and not have separate English and Netherlands versions. I'd prefer to use rooSwitch (Lite), a more generalized app that can "backup/restore" Safari and other apps with different profiles and is only a 1.7MB download.