MacOS – Delete all Bookmarks / Favorites from Safari

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I use Chrome as my primary browser (Work and Home) but have to fall-back to Safari for side-businesses during work, such as music streaming sites.

For consistency, I like to keep my browsers in sync. Chrome carries all my bookmarks and I prefer importing them all into Safari. An obvious limitation of this is that to keep my Safari updated with latest bookmarks of Chrome, every once in a while I must delete all bookmarks / favorites from Safari and add them again (just to avoid any duplication).

Now I'm unable to find any button in menus / preferences to Delete All Bookmarks. And deleting each bookmark individually is a pain since there are over 280. How do I delete all bookmarks from Safari without having to reset it entirely (deleting Cache, Cookies, History etc)?

macOS High Sierra 10.13.3, Safari 11.0.3 (13604.5.6)

Best Answer

For those who've been in Apple's ecosystem for a while, this would be straight-forward. But since I come from Windows / Linux background, I'm not-so-familiar with the quick and (subjectively) intuitive shortcuts found here-and-there across macOS.


It's quite easy:

  • Click on Bookmarks menu > Edit Bookmarks
  • Here you get list of all your bookmarks and favorites (Tip: If you've imported your bookmarks from Chrome, all those that come from Bookmarks Bar of Chrome are listed under Favorites)
  • Click on the first bookmark (after favorites section), and hold down Delete key till all bookmarks get deleted enter image description here
  • Repeat this for Favorites