Safari Bookmark Backup Script

Project Summary

This script is designed to deal with the repitive tasks of backup Safari Bookmarks and TopSites files, and name the backup files with the backup date for easy reference.

Usage Instructions

  1. Downloading the shell script.
  2. Open Terminal application on your Mac
  3. run command cd folderContainingTheScript, replace folderContainingTheScript with path to the folder containing the downloaded shell script
  4. run chmod 755 safari_bookmark_backup.sh to give the shell script execution privilege
  5. run the command sh safari_bookmark_backup.sh to use the script

Planning

It will be updated to support other folders, and possibly present them as options, such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, and as last option, any folder of the user's choice.

In future version, would expand the function to cover other preference files in Mac OS.

Version History

v.1.0

Only backups the bookmarks to iCloud Drive.

v.1.5

Add 5 options for backup folder selection, only 2 working for now.