Safari - Missing Bookmark Bar

[Applespider]

My bookmark bar, complete with all my links, was happily sitting in Safari.

Then I minimised the Safari window, and when I returned, the bookmark bar has gone. Preferences says that it's still on 'show bookmark bar' is ticked. I've tried quitting safari, I've rebuilt permissions. The bookmarks are still there - I can 'show all bookmarks' from the bookmark menu - just the bar has gone

Any ideas where it might have gone to and how I can get it back - hadn't realised how much I depended on it for casual browsing unti it wasn't there.

 

[rgwalker]

I had the same problem

I had this same problem and I could not figure it out for about a month so I asked a friend and he suggested that it might just be a keyboard shortcut so I tried looking it up and did not find it so then I thought maybe if I just try (command shift b) for bookmarks and what do ya know my bookmarks bar came back so try that it may help. I was just so excited that this worked I had to come post it here for others struggling with this.

 

[sarahlew]

Amazing!

Command+Shift+B works. Thanks!

 

[Tracoanthaks]

My Safari bookmark bar does not show even when I select "Show bookmark bar

Until yesterday, my first 5 or 6 bookmarks showed in a bookmark bar at the top of my dock. Now I get a blank space, even when I select "Show bookmarks bar" with the "View" menu. Even when I've clicked on "Include bookmark bar" and "show top sites" under Safari preferences it still does not work. Any suggestions?

 

[Gregg2]

Until yesterday, my first 5 or 6 bookmarks showed in a bookmark bar at the top of my dock.

Where??? Without a picture, the choice of terms is crucial to communication.

 

[Tracoanthaks]

My top bookmarks (the last 5 or 6 I added) used to show in a horizontal bar at the top of my screen, just under the address bar (which does show). I get only a line and a blank horizontal column. All my bookmarks show in a vertical column on the right when I press "bookmarks bar" in the Bookmarks menu. So it's not a disaster, but it was convenient to show the most recent bookmarks permanently at the top so I could just click on them. As I said, even when I press "show bookmark bar" under the View menu, nothing happens. And I've tried various choices under Safari preferences without success.

 

[Gregg2]

My top bookmarks (the last 5 or 6 I added) used to show in a horizontal bar at the top of my screen, just under the address bar (which does show). I get only a line and a blank horizontal column. All my bookmarks show in a vertical column on the right when I press "bookmarks bar" in the Bookmarks menu. So it's not a disaster, but it was convenient to show the most recent bookmarks permanently at the top so I could just click on them. As I said, even when I press "show bookmark bar" under the View menu, nothing happens. And I've tried various choices under Safari preferences without success.

Try cmd-Shift-B (suggested above) and see if that shows the Bookmarks Bar. That's just the keyboard shortcut for the menu command, so I doubt it will work given your trouble.

But, what you describe is not how my Safari (5.0.2) works. I have to intentionally make a bookmark in the Bookmarks Bar. It's not just my "most recent" bookmarked sites.

I also doubt that anything in Reset Safari... will fix that. Maybe a fresh Safari plist file would help, but I'm not sure what settings that may influence.

If you still have a Safari disk image, you could reinstall it. Or, just download the highest version you can run and reinstall that.

 

[Tracoanthaks]

Missing Bookmark Bar

Thanks for the suggestions. Strangely, the bar reappeared for a while yesterday, but I don't know what I did to make it reappear. When I restarted the computer today, the bar disappeared again. I'll just live with it until I can figure out what's making it come and go.

 

[Gregg2]

Well, try the plist thing, found here:
HD/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences
Quit Safari
Drag com.apple.safari.plist to your Desktop
Open Safari. This makes a "fresh" plist file.
Is the bookmarks bar back? If so, it was probably a corruption in that file. You can Trash the one you moved out of Preferences.

 

[Tracoanthaks]

Bookmark bar not showing

It's very mysterious. The bar disappears when I reboot after shutting down the computer, but just "magically" reappears within a half-hour. Right now it's showing; when I turned on Safari about two hours ago it was not showing, and I did not try anything, at least not consciously, to make it appear.

It's really a minor problem since I can get all my bookmarks by pressing "bookmarks bar" under the Bookmarks menu. It's just a convenience to have the latest bookmarks added show at top and they seem to show as long as I keep the computer turned on for a while.

I have a much bigger problem trying to connect my brand new IMac Desktop to my Comcast internet router, but that's a topic for a different thread!

Thanks for the help though.

 

[greylockjc]

I had the same problem

I had this same problem and I could not figure it out for about a month so I asked a friend and he suggested that it might just be a keyboard shortcut so I tried looking it up and did not find it so then I thought maybe if I just try (command shift b) for bookmarks and what do ya know my bookmarks bar came back so try that it may help. I was just so excited that this worked I had to come post it here for others struggling with this.

[doublepost=1520163538][/doublepost]Thank you!~ Worked like a charm