Searching through Safari history

[Gary]

As I accumulate more years, I seem to lose more memories at about the
same rate (or at least my ability to access my memories). In working
with Safari (or any browser), I sometimes have a problem something like
this:

I know that in the last few days I was on a web site that told you
specifically how to work with a certain item, or how to fix a certain
broken item, etc. But I cannot remember the web site and the list of
web sites in "History" doesn't help me. I don't believe the thing I am
searching for was actually the main purpose of the web site I am
looking for, but it had useful information I'd really like to be able
to retrieve.

Is there some way I can search through the web sites in my history for
key words that can get me back to the site I have forgotten?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

[Alan Baker]

In article <5198bcfe$0$64449$c3e8da3$5e5e...@news.astraweb.com>,

Yup. There is very specifically a way for that... ...at least for Safari.

Safari stores a boiled down keyword version of each page you visit as a
".webhistory" file, specifically so that Spotlight can search the
contents.

So do a Finder/Spotlight search for your keyword and add "kind:safari
history". If your history goes back far enough, you'll get your hit.

:-)

--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
"If you raise the ceiling four feet, move the fireplace from that wall
to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect if you
sit in the bottom of that cupboard."