On 1/15/03 10:12 AM, "Kim Gammelg�rd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 15/01/03 8:43, "Gerald E. Uhlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> For some reason unbeknownst to me, Safari downloads them all to the hard >> drive, and then shows them with Preview. Then I have to go and delete them >> all. A real pain, especially since the default for downloads is the >> desktop. Makes a real mess, and there's no preference setting to prevent >> this. I don't understand why it doesn't use the QuickTime plug-in for >> viewing photos, etc., in a new window. Just download them to the cache like >> a normal browser, and empty the cache. > > Are you sure you are not downloading them? If you go to > <http://www.macdesktops.com> for instance choose a picture that you want to > see in different sizes - just for test purposes of course. Then you have > five different options, AFAIK: > 1) ctrl-click on one of the picture links and chose something in the > contextual menu. > 2) click on a picture link to open it in the same window, replacing what was > there. > 3) shift-click on a picture link to let the picture open in a new window in > the background (much like tabbed browsing btw, cycle through open windows > with cmd-< ) > 4) option- or alt-click on any link will download whatever you chose to > alt-click on. > 5) cmd-click on a link to open it in a new window in front of the one you > were looking at. > > If you alt- or option-click on a picture link, and have it downloaded, it > may open the appropriate helper application, although it doesn't do it for > me, so something might be wrong in your settings somewhere. The setting > "open save files after download" could be turned off, but mine is on and it > still doesn't open any .jpg I download. Perhaps it is time to run a > permission check using Disk Utilities? This really could be one of those > permission things that went wrong somehow! > > Cheers, > > Kim Well, in reality when viewing a page or a photo, it is actually downloaded to the drive. Normally it goes into a cache file or folder, which most browsers normally delete them after a while (at least I think the newer browsers delete old stuff automatically now). My problem with Safari is that it downloads photos to my desktop, whether I wanted to save that photo or not, instead of storing it temporarily in a cache file, showing it to me, and having the option to save it as a separate file if I want to keep it. In IE, I just click on a link and it shows it to me, storing it in the cache. In Safari, it downloads it to my desktop, and then opens Preview to show it, and when I'm done viewing all the photos, I've got all these files to delete from the desktop! In other words, it treats links to .jpg files the same way as a link to a software download or other file that you would normally download to your hard drive to save and use, like a .sit file or .hqx or .bin file. As far as your problem of it not automatically opening .jpg files goes, have you tried doing "open with" on one of them and then select Preview or another app to open all files with the .jpg extension? Gerry -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
