Re: instead of downloading a file, Safari is opening it and showing the code

2012-06-07 Thread Donna Goodin
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 > downloa

Re: instead of downloading a file, Safari is opening it and showing the code

2012-06-07 Thread Steve Holmes
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

Re: instead of downloading a file, Safari is opening it and showing the code

2012-06-01 Thread Donna Goodin
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 extensio

Re: instead of downloading a file, Safari is opening it and showing the code

2012-06-01 Thread Esther
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 d

Re: instead of downloading a file, Safari is opening it and showing the code

2012-06-01 Thread Donna Goodin
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

Re: instead of downloading a file, Safari is opening it and showing the code

2012-06-01 Thread Ricardo Walker
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 wrote: > Hey all, > > Has anyone every