History.plist

Versions of the Apple Safari web browser before version 10.10<ref>https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6615000, post beginning with "Looks like I may have figured this out"</ref> (2014<ref>[[Wikipedia:OS X Yosemite]]</ref>)<ref group=note>This corresponds in time to the release of [[IOS]] version 8, but there is little that can be discerned from public discussion about when the transition on IOS happened, besides that it was some time around then.</ref> keep the primary copy of its history in a file called '''History.plist'''. This is a [[Property List]] file, which used the [[XML]]-based property list format before version 10.2, when the use of the binary version was made optional; after version 10.4, this became the deafult<ref>https://kb.digital-detective.net/display/BLADE1/Recovering+Apple+Safari+History+Binary+PList+(Property+List)+Files</ref>. It stores dates as seconds since midnight, January 1, 2001, UTC. On desktop installations, it can be found at the path ''~/Library/Safari/History.plist'' (using the [[Unix]] convention of using a tilde for a user's home directory). On [[IOS Backup|backups of mobile installations]], it can be found at <code>ed50eadf14505ef0b433e0c4a380526ad6656d3a</code><ref name="so">https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/104112/where-is-the-safaris-history-plist-file-in-ios-7/152999</ref>, at <code>1d6740792a2b845f4c1e6220c43906d7f0afe8ab</code><ref>https://github.com/ccastillop/iOS-Corrupted-Backup-Reader/blob/master/iOS-Corrupted-Backup-Reader.py</ref>, or at <code>ed50eadf14505ef0b433e0c4a380526ad6656d3a</code> from IOS 8 after.<ref name="so" />