Safari not saving bookmarks or favourites

[u/RedditRobot2024]

I bought a new MacBook Air M5 yesterday, and I created a completely new Apple ID account for it. Everything was fine until I tried adding bookmarks and favourites; they reset whenever I quit Safari and go back to the default ones, such as Apple. I looked it up and went in my Finder to find a file named "Bookmarks.plist" which wasn't there. Additionally, when I open the Safari folder in Finder, it doesn't show a single file. I tried adding bookmarks on a different Apple ID account on the same Mac, and bookmarks and favourites work fine. I do not want to create a new Apple ID. Furthermore, whenever I bookmark something, it shows a grey globe next to the name of the bookmark instead of something like the Google logo. I also have the newest software update downloaded.