So I wasnt paying attention and "reset" Safari... can I get my history back?

[jdc]

subject says it all.

was going to just clear the cache but hit reset.

all of my opened tabs are gone, history is gone, autofil URL is gone.

Ive got Time Machine running -- but not sure where the file resides to restore? Or if I even can?

TIA

[cbelt3]

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2712305

history.plist

[jdc]

Well hell, that was easier than I thought.

thanks cbelt.

did just as it said -- went to users/jdc/libray/safari -- selected the history, last session and top sites plist and restored from last night, 2:52 am.

restarted safari, reopen all windows from last session... done. =)

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Yay Time Machine. Another positive for Time Machine. Too bad the score is like 3 to 20 in good results versus problems. Granted not a lot of people post when they deleted a file or had a drive fail and TM works....

[eustacetilley]

"Reset" commands like this need a "Molly Guard", the software equivalent of the device invented by IBM because a little girl by the name of Molly managed to hit the Big Red Switch not once, but twice in one day.
A simple popup saying "Do you really want to reset Safari? Really?" would do nicely.

Eustace

[cbelt3]

eustace, I just learned something new, thanks to you. I'd never heard that story. I always called them "safety covers"... most of my early engineering experience with them involved things that go 'boom'.

Molly is probably in her 30's by now... I wonder if she knows this story.

[jdc]

Its got the warning, but only once... wont even let you hit enter. I was doing other things and just clicked.

operator error

[GGD]

I had never heard that term before either, and the association with the 4341 dates it around early 1980s. Those Big Red Buttons have been on IBM mainframes long before that. I remember seeing the buttons on IBM 360s and 1130s in the early 1970s, but without a cover guard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_red_button
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/M/molly-guard.html

I wonder if they changed the design, because the old ones were labeled "Emergency Pull", making it more difficult to accidentally "press" it.

[eustacetilley]

jdc wrote:
Its got the warning, but only once... wont even let you hit enter. I was doing other things and just clicked.

operator error

In my old haunting grounds, this had the acronym OHS- Operator Head Space.


We had two kinds of Big Red Buttons; first were the Crash-Off Buttons, which tripped the 12KV breaker, and reduced us to utter darkness, accompanied with hopefully not too much burning flesh smell.

The other was a SCRAM button; it tripped all safety chains, but left power on. Some chassis had their own SCRAM button, deeply reset so a swinging cat wouldn't accidentally trip it.
Legend has it that the first SCRAM button wasn't a button at all. Somebody yells "Scram", and the "Safety Control Rod Axe Man" swings into action, while everybody else scrams.
Fermi may or may not have invented the term.

Eustace

[GGD]

eustacetilley wrote:
We had two kinds of Big Red Buttons; first were the Crash-Off Buttons, which tripped the 12KV breaker, and reduced us to utter darkness, accompanied with hopefully not too much burning flesh smell.

The other was a SCRAM button; it tripped all safety chains, but left power on. Some chassis had their own SCRAM button, deeply reset so a swinging cat wouldn't accidentally trip it.
Legend has it that the first SCRAM button wasn't a button at all. Somebody yells "Scram", and the "Safety Control Rod Axe Man" swings into action, while everybody else scrams.
Fermi may or may not have invented the term.

Eustace

Any war stories of being in the room when either were used? Or even better, being the one to press it?