Hi Steve, I tried that, but with no luck. As someone said, it may just pertain to something about how the site is set up . Thanks for the suggestion anyway. Cheers, Donna On Jun 7, 2012, at 5:57 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:
> I had a similar problem earlier this month with the PDF files I > downloaded from Best Buy. One thing different from what Esther > suggested was once the URL was obtained from the header with > Command-L, I tried Option-Enter and that actually downloaded the file > for me. In my case these were PDF's and they were named properly; not > sure about your situation though. > > On 6/1/12, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote: >> Hi Esther, >> >> Unfortunately, that didn't work either. Thanks for the tip, though, I'll >> remember to try it if this ever happens again.. >> Best, >> Donna >> On Jun 1, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Esther wrote: >> >>> Hi Donna, >>> >>> What's likely is that the file you're trying to download doesn't have >>> a file name extension (for example, it could be a PDF file which does >>> not have the ".pdf" extension as part of its name), or perhaps the >>> server from which you are retrieving the file has not set this up for >>> automatic download. If the files you are trying to retrieve are zip- >>> compressed or otherwise use some archived format, then they almost >>> always download. However, depending on how the server machine from >>> which you retrieve the files is set up, if the file extension type is >>> not present, or is one for which a default download action is not set >>> up, it's likely to be treated as a "text" file, and simply displayed >>> in the browaser. This is not something that you control by any >>> settings at your end (called the "client" side); it is a "server" side >>> setting. If the source web page was designed by someone who is not >>> aware of these issues, then whether the file is downloaded or >>> displayed depends on default settings of the browser version/operating >>> system being used. >>> >>> Could you download the file (that was being displayed as "code" in >>> Safari), by pressing Command-L to highlight the address of the >>> downloaded file, and then pressing "Return"? That usually works for >>> me if I don't want to fiddle with the link options and Control-click >>> on the link. >>> >>> HTH. Cheers, >>> >>> Esther >>> >>> >>> On Jun 1, 7:20 am, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote: >>>> Did that, no dice. What's weirder is that I was able to download it >>>> using Chrome. >>>> Donna >>>> On Jun 1, 2012, at 1:16 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> nope. >>>> >>>>> I can't say I have. At least, not that I can remember. try pressing >>>>> option enter on the link to download instead. >>>> >>>>> Ricardo Walker >>>>> rica...@appletothecore.info >>>>> Twitter:@apple2thecore >>>>> www.appletothecore.info >>>> >>>>> On Jun 1, 2012, at 1:06 PM, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>>> Hey all, >>>> >>>>>> Has anyone every seen this? I'm clicking on the link to a file I want >>>>>> to download, but instead of downloading it, Safari is opening it and >>>>>> displaying the code. 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