What worked for me is not to have Safari open the downloaded file. Then when I go to the downloads folder, each zipped file has the correct name. I just unzip them, and put the folders where I want them.
Bob Hill On Sep 5, 2012, at 9:23 AM, Richard Ring <richr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > One of the nice things about downloading books from the National Library > Service (NLS) on the Mac is that if you have the check box in Safari > preferences that says "open safe files after download" checked, Safari will > extract the archived files you download from NLS and place them in their own > folders. This makes it very convenient so when you want to copy these books > to a device that can read them, all you have to do is copy the folder for > each book and you're good to go. > Now, here is the problem I had. I admit from the outset that I'm weird. I > decided on September first that I wanted to download all of the Harry Potter > novels, because I could, and because I could then read them whenever I > wanted. Well, what the Mac did, was give each Bard book the same folder name, > almost. It named each folder DB-JK and DB-JK2 and so on. So, I couldn't tell > which book was which. So, I deleted the 3 books I downloaded, and started > over. This time, I downloaded one book at a time, and renamed each folder > with the correct name for each book. > Now, finally, for my question. Is there an easier way I could have > accomplished this? > Thanks for reading this long message. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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.
