Saving images from Safari to a folder of your own choosing....

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Saving images from Safari to a folder of your own choosing....

... Other than desktop or another preset.

It's just that I'm more familiar with the Firefox/IE system on windows, i.e., you right-click, choose 'save as', pic your folder, etc... It's handy when you're grabbing a lot of different images with different destination folders in mind, and most of for sequential purposes... being able to give it a file-name, such as A01, A02 etc etc etc

Now, I don't seem to be able to do this on Safari, but surely there must be a way? Obviously, I know I can go to preferences>general>save downloa files to , but this is cumbersome when I want to save to one location for one file, another for the next, and most of, it doesn't allow me to name the files- I just have to go with whatever they happen to be called.

Is there any way around this? I'm at the point where I switch over to XP for this sort of activity, which is far from ideal.

Intel iMac 20" 30gb iPod 5th Gen iPod Shuffle 2nd Gen, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Mar 20, 2007 3:36 PM

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Eme

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Mar 20, 2007 4:23 PM in response to ho chi feen

Hi,

When you click on "Save as", in Safari there are more locations to chose from in the drop down menu.

You can also CTRL click on an image which will get you a popup menu
as this image shows.

Does that help any?

Eme'~[)

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ho chi feen Author

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Mar 20, 2007 4:44 PM in response to Eme

Thanks.

Well, by clicking on 'save as' I take it you mean 'save as' from the file menu? Yeah, I can choose a location; but for the webpage as a whole, as opposed to the image.

When I use CTRL click I get the same menu as in your screenshot, but again, this just allows me to save the image (with its current title) to the desktop (or another preset folder).

I hope you grasp what I'm getting at- it's something equivalent to right-clicking an image and selecting 'save as' on Windows- you would then be able to select a destination folder (rather than just going with something preset) and a name for the file.

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Rachel R

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Mar 20, 2007 5:35 PM in response to ho chi feen

When I use CTRL click I get the same menu as in your screenshot, but again, this just allows me to save the image (with its current title) to the desktop (or another preset folder).

You can hold down the Option key after Control-clicking. Then "Save Image to the Desktop" (or whatever your downloads folder is set to be) will change to "Save Image As..."

When you choose that menu option you can then change the name of the file you're downloading and choose which folder to download into.

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ho chi feen Author

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Mar 20, 2007 5:37 PM in response to Rachel R

Thanks very much, problem solved!

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Rachel R

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Mar 20, 2007 5:40 PM in response to ho chi feen

You're welcome. 🙂

Interestingly, Apple once had the behavior of that menu item reversed. That is, Control-clicking gave you the "Save Image As..." option, while holding down the Option key changed the menu item to "Save Image to the Desktop." They changed the behavior many versions of Safari ago, to some people's consternation. In Apple's defense, I think they were trying to make things easier and simpler for the less-experienced computer user, who might have trouble navigating the Save dialog box or figuring out where they had just downloaded a file. 😉

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ho chi feen Author

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Mar 20, 2007 5:42 PM in response to Rachel R

I see. As somebody who used windows almost exlusively until a while back, I occasionally come across things like this which seem counter-intuitive. Thankfully, there's almost always a simple remedy once you know where to look!

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