Hello, Have you tried pressing option enter on the link that contains the file you want? This works often for me.
hth On Aug 25, 2010, at 2:28 PM, Greg Aikens wrote: > Hello all, > My school uses the Blackboard platform for accessing course materials such as > power point slides and course assignments. I can access the site and navigate > fine, but I cannot figure out how to download the files I need for my > courses. When I pull up a context menu on the link to try and download it, > the file being saved is an html document and not the file I want. When I just > click on the link blackboard pulls up another page which I assume displays > the content through the web browser. This is an inconvenient way to access > the files, if I can read them at all. The only kind of file I have been able > to read this way is a pdf. > > Can you guys suggest other methods for getting to the target file? Has anyone > else used blackboard to access course materials on a mac in the past? > > Thanks for any help. > > -Greg > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
