On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 02:30 PM, Beth Weld wrote:
I just received a question from someone using a mac - how do they download a file.
There is no definitive answer to this question.?
If you click on the file name in groups.io, it will be sent as a binary data stream. What happens then depends on your OS, browser settings, what add-ons you might have installed, and even the data type of the file being downloaded.
For example, I have a Chrome add-on that causes PDF files to display in the browser window instead of downloading it. To actually download I have to hover? my mouse cursor at top-right until the download watermark shows up, and click on it. At that point it will actually pop up a dialog box so I can tell the file where to go.
Similarly, photos will generally fail to directly download, but instead redisplay in the browser. I have to right-click on them and do a "save as" in the resulting dialog box to actually download them.
Some information on downloading with the Safari browser can be found here:?
Hoping something in there helps,
Bruce
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