Resurrecting Safari tabs and window data

[winterquilt]

Is it possible to restore Safari from a Time Machine backup so that the tabs and windows from a previous time will come back up ?

That data must be contained somewhere.

 

[z2000]

Did you check the history of safari? That data should be there.

 

[winterquilt]

The windows had tabs that went back months, it would be impossible to know which ones they were.

The data must be held somewhere, if I knew where to resurrect it from hopefully that would bring those lost Safari tabs and windows back.

 

[KeesMacPro]

The data must be held somewhere

I'm not so sure about that .
IMO it depends on your setting in Safari> preferences.
It could be automatically deleted after e.g. a week, a month, a year or stored until manually deleted.

 

[winterquilt]

I'm not talking about the history, that I have set to never wipe. I am referring to the tabs, which were repeatedly displayed each and every time.

My issue arose when I closed Safari down too quickly, before the tabs had loaded in the multiple windows, and so when I loaded it back up the windows were all blank !

 

[KeesMacPro]

I'm not talking about the history, that I have set to never wipe. I am referring to the tabs, which were repeatedly displayed each and every time.

My issue arose when I closed Safari down too quickly, before the tabs had loaded in the multiple windows, and so when I loaded it back up the windows were all blank !

OK, sorry I misunderstood.

I cant remember that I experienced this, so unfortunately I cant help you.

 

[winterquilt]

I figured out how to it and it works: simply navigate to folder "~/Library/Safari" and restore it.

I restored both, keeping the present copy, then just renaming, and opening Safari, and it returned with all of the lost windows.

Time Machine got my conkers out of the fire !