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Electronic filing in Federal Court

I file documents in Federal Court electronically, as required. Each court has its own secure filing sight, each run on a different server, but all pretty much identical. After logging in, the sites walk you through to a point where you are required to "choose" the main document that you want to file. When you hit the "Choose" button, a finder window opens and you navigate to the pdf of your choice - it MUST be in pdf format - and you simply single-click on it. The finder window closes and VOILA, there in the upload box is the document you chose.


After unconsciously upgrading to Safari 6.0, though, I am unable to select the proper pdf to upload to the particular court site because, in the finder window, all pdfs, indeed ALL documents of any sort, are greyed out. They are not selectable. It seems I am unable to "downgrade" to my previpous version of Safari - grrrrrr - so I'm dead in the water. This is a serious issue, as the bulk of my practice requires that I be able to file documents electronically in Federal Court.


Anybody?


Jay Dunham

Safari 6.0-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Aug 15, 2012 4:59 AM

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User profile for user: splybtulsa
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Aug 15, 2012 5:40 AM in response to hpr3

Yes. The current version of Firefox has the same problem. Earlier versions do not - like Safari - but there again, even though Firefox installation is "drag and drop", when I try to install an earlier, Federal-Court-filing-functional version, it "auto-updates" to a version that suffers from the same problem.


Chrome just doesn't work and I'm unable to find any earlier versions that do.

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User profile for user: n3rdboi
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Aug 15, 2012 9:31 AM in response to splybtulsa

You can open the PDF file by right-clicking [or on a MacBook control-click] on it and selecting "open with" and in the next drop-down menu Preview should be listed. If not, then Preview is in the Applications folder where you can launch it and use the "open" command from the File menu and navigate to the PDF. Once open you can then use the "save as" feature to save a copy to use with your electronic filing.

Using this method may make the file compatible

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User profile for user: ATillmann
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Aug 15, 2012 2:07 PM in response to splybtulsa

Jay,


This has plaqued my office the last two weeks and I have a work around. FYI, everyone in the office and at home is running Mac's.


First, it started wtih the paralegal. Quickly fixed, because there was a button in the browser (safari) that only allowed jpeg images to be selected. When turned off, the pdf's where no longer shaded. Problem solved.


Now my computer and mac book are doing the same thing, only I've upgraded to Mt. Lion and for some reason can not find the button to change what types of images can be uploaded to CM/ECF or Pacer. Home Mac's all exhibiting the same issue. I can't get Safari, Firefox, or Chrome to work.


Two workarounds: Safari, Google Chrome, and Firefox won't work, but Opera does. Download it and it will work fine for you. http://www.opera.com/download/get.pl?id=34936&thanks=true&sub=true


Second workaround. Partner uses parallels and uploads all pdf's via Internet Explorer.


Aaron Tillmann

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User profile for user: splybtulsa
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Aug 15, 2012 4:35 PM in response to ATillmann

Young Mr. Tillman, you are my MacHero. Opera works like a charm.🙂


Also thanks to n3rdboi, LincDavis and hpr3, all of whom gave it their good-faith best. After all I've been through, I think it has to do with how the browser handles Java Scrip, but that's just a guess.


I love this place!


That said - and I, too, have "upgraded" to ML (POS?) - how can we get Safari to work? Based on your post, there HAS to be a way.


And, speaking of ML, Mr. Tillman, try this:


Go to the home page for any Court of Appeals. Hit the buttion to subscribe to their RSS feed so all new decisions are fed to your email client. Let me know what you see, off board, at elawyer@swbell.net. I see something like a light show. Fun to watch, but wholly disfunctional. Like my first wife.😁


Thanks again!


Jay D

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User profile for user: splybtulsa
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Aug 24, 2012 1:08 PM in response to Jackaggie

Not sure what the question is. The fix for not being able to select a document to file (upload) in Federal Court - because all documents, including pdfs, are dimmed - was Opera, which works fine. There is no fix for not being able to use Apple Mail for RSS feeds - the geniuses in Cupertino removed that feature in Mail 6.0. Now I just use Google Reader via Safari. Seems to work, but I'd rather do it in mail.

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