Tewha » workarounds http://tewha.net Links and writings on software development, mostly for iPhone and Mac OS X. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:08:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Restore deleted Safari cookies http://tewha.net/2008/03/restore-deleted-safari-cookies/ http://tewha.net/2008/03/restore-deleted-safari-cookies/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:09:58 +0000 Steven Fisher http://tewha.net/?p=474 Continue reading →]]> Safari 3.1 still eats cookies, although it seems to do so much less often than 3.0. I just hit it for the first time since updating.

So what do you do when your cookies all disappear? Well, you can actually use Time Machine to restore them. The cookies are stored in ~/Library/Cookies in a single file called Cookies.plist. Trash this file, then use Time Machine to restore one from a couple hours previous.

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