Copying Safari Bookmarks to Safari Technology Preview
Monday, August 17th, 2020
This morning I wanted to be able to copy my bookmarks from Safari to Safari Technology Preview and thought "This should be easy" - and Hoo Boy! I'm glad I was right. 🙂 I will confess that I was a little surprised that the Bookmarks are implemented as a plist, but I guess that's as simple a storage scheme as macOS has, and there are system calls to make sure that updates are atomic... so I guess it's as good as any.
The key is that this Bookmarks.plist is in ~/Library/Safari and can be copied to the target directory:
$ cp ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist ~/Library/SafariTechnologyPreview/
after that, there wasn't even the need to restart Safari Technology Preview - just the next time I looked at the Bookmarks, they were updated. Nice! 🙂