Turning off PDF auto save to desktop?

Wild guess: Click on the downward facing disclosure triangle to the right of the 'Save as:' field



and you will be able to navigate to another folder in to which you can save the file...

My wife was annoyed with that this past summer. In 10.5 with Safari, she could just view a PDF without downloading, but 10.6 seemingly forced a download, somewhere.

Not sure if this is what you mean, but anxious to see if it is. It may have been a Safari/10.6 combination at the time and I've forgotten about it until now. I'll have to verify for myself later.

Joe

Hi, Joe - Don't use Safari too much, but it does allow you to read PDFs inline as does Firefox (with plugin).

Maybe I installed something to allow that in Safari, I don't recall, but I can't find anything like a PDF plugin for Safari on my system at the moment, either.

OPTION-clicking on a PDF link in Safari causes it to download to wherever you've selected downloads to go (Safari->Preferences->General->Save Downloads). Clicking on that link loads the PDF to Safari's window.

Safari "just works" and loads the PDF in the Safari window...UNLESS you have the Adobe Acrobat PDF reader installed. If you have Reader and the Adobe Internet Plug-in things get different because, last I heard, the Adobe Plug-in is 32-bit only and Safari in Snow Leopard is 64-bit, so the Adobe Plug-in won't work. I suspect if Safari thinks you want to use the Adobe Acrobat reader for PDF files, and of course plug-in won't run, it could helpfully download the file instead. You can check to see if there is a 64-bit version of the Adobe Acrobat Reader Plug-in yet, or you can change Safari to run in 32-bit mode (use GetInfo, and the General section click the button at the bottom), or you can see if removing the Adobe Plug-in from /Library/Internet Plug-Ins will set Safari back to the default behavior. Since I dislike Acrobat Reader I've haven't installed it in years and my Safari has always used the default Apple Preview. Whether you need to do anything aside from removing the plug-in I just don't know.
Francine


Francine
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Yeah I prefer to use Firefox instead, and didn't noted such change since Leopard 🙂

dRm
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